Swarms of tiny ‘nose robots’ clear out sinuses

Photo credit: Kaboompics.com via Pexels. Article by Michael Franco. New Atlas – June 30, 2025.

Many persistent sinus infections involve biofilms – colonies of bacteria that group together to resist efforts to kill them. Now, researchers have developed biofilm-blasting bots that could handily deal with these, and other, bacterial infections. While having a swarm of dust-sized microbots inside your sinuses might sound a little horrifying, anyone who’s ever had a persistent sinus infection will tell you that they’d do just about anything to get rid of it. […]

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