The protozoan Trypanosoma brucei causes African sleeping sickness and the disease was so prevalent at one point, it made parts of Africa uninhabitable. But now, the microorganism is serving as a model for Swiss-based engineers developing a new class of microscopic robots that could be used to deliver drugs or perform life-saving surgeries at a […]
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