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Microbivore
artificial white blood cell
designed by
Robert A. Freitas Jr. 		Microbivore specs Artificial mechanical phagocytes of microscopic size, called "microbivores," whose primary function is to destroy microbiological pathogens found in the human bloodstream using a digest and discharge protocol.   The microbivore is an oblate spheroidal nanomedical device measuring 3.4 microns in diameter along its major axis and 2.0 microns in diameter along its minor axis, consisting of 610 billion precisely arranged structural atoms in a gross geometric volume of 12.1 micron3.   The device may consume up to 200 pW of continuous power while completely digesting trapped microbes at a maximum throughput of 2 micron3 of organic material per 30-second cycle.   Microbivores are up to ~1000 times faster-acting than either natural or antibiotic-assisted biological phagocytic defenses, and are ~80 times more efficient as phagocytic agents than macrophages, in terms of volume/sec digested per unit volume of phagocytic agent.   Microbivores designed by Robert A. Freitas Jr.   Cost covered by medical insurance.  
In development.

Microbivores: Artificial Mechanical Phagocytes
using Digest and Discharge Protocol

Robert A. Freitas Jr.

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing.
Copyright © 2001 Robert A. Freitas Jr. All Rights Reserved
March 2001
URL: http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/Microbivores.htm



http://www.imm.org/Reports/Rep025.html

http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0453.html

http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Gallery/Species/Microbivores.html

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