University of Pennsylvania dental researchers in collaboration with Penn bioengineers have developed metallic nano-robotic particles that can be directed to sites of fungal infection and eradicate these dangerous yeasts. The team has utilized catalytic iron nanoparticles called nanozymes to create microscopic robots that can be driven to infected tissues using magnetic fields. Once they arrive at the fungus to which they attach, the robots generate highly reactive oxygen compounds that, like your Clorox cleansers, kill the yeast. Now that we face fungal species like Candida auris that our current antibiotics can’t kill, these micro robots may be called upon to save the day….someday soon.

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