Pierre Dupont, PhD

Pierre Dupont, PhD chief of Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering at Children’s Hospital Boston is working on a ball-baring sized robot that could be implanted in a child’s cerebrospinal fluid or the urinary tract. It is powered by MRI magnetism to deliver stem cells or drugs to specific locations, or to adjust prosthetic devices as the child grows.  The same magnetism that generates MRI images might be used to guide any number of “swimming robots” he envisions.  This piece describes such a device he built and recently demonstrated is moved to take biopsies  MORE

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