>> He emphasizes, "Any scientist can already use our model at the design stage of their own research to instantly narrow down the number of nanoparticle variants requiring experimental verification."
Not an expert but it seems acid is not specific enough. There are acidic organs like the stomach but also the vagina. I wonder if the nano robots would then attack stomach and vagina cells.
This said, I am pleasantly surprised that nano robots, a scifi idea, are actively researched and tested. As a child I watched a French TV scifi animation series which showed people and their vessel minified and injected into a human body. Now finally it seems this future has started? I hope it is a good start.
In the long term I expect engineering to outperform evolution in the same way that mathematics allowed humans to establish such a practical lead that we're almost in a different class to animals. It'll be interesting to see how quickly and how lopsided the advantage is over cells if nanorobots take off.
Molecular organic biology _is_ already since the dawn of time the realization of nanobots through enzymes and various automata built in chemistry.
I think (to your point) what is interesting is adding new chemical nanobot-esque compounds that nature had not yet developed. For example that can coordinate with external focused energy.
>> He emphasizes, "Any scientist can already use our model at the design stage of their own research to instantly narrow down the number of nanoparticle variants requiring experimental verification."
>> "Modeling Absorption Dynamics of Differently Shaped Gold Glioblastoma and Colon Cells Based on Refractive Index Distribution in Holotomographic Imaging" (2024) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202400778
> Holotomography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holotomography
>>> Could part of the cancer-killing [200nm nanoparticle gold stars] be more magnetic than Gold (Au), for targeting treatment?
Magnets, nano robots, NIRS targeting,
"Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla" [1800W] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm7168 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40335170