Respirocytes a Medical Nanorobotics

         Use of nanotechnological approaches and nanomaterials opens new prospects for creation of drugs and systems for their directed delivery. Implementation of optical biosensor, atomic force, nanowire and nanoporous approaches into genomics and proteomics will significantly enhance the sensitivity and accuracy of diagnostics and will shorten the time of diagnostic procedures that will undoubtedly improve the efficiency of medical treatment.Many approaches to nanomedicine being pursued today are already close enough to fruition that it is fair to say that their successful development is almost inevitable, and their subsequent incorporation into valuable medical diagnostics or clinical therapeutics is highly likely and may occur very soon.

        The artificial mechanical red blood cell or “respirocyte,”a blood-borne, spherical, 1-m diamondoid, 1000-atm-pressure vessel with active pumping powered by endogenous serum glucose, able to deliver 236 times more oxygen to the tissues per unit volume than natural red blood cells and to manage carbonic acidity. The nanorobot is made of 18 billion atoms precisely arranged in a diamondoid pressure tank that can be pumped full of up to 3 billion oxygen and carbon dioxide molecules. Later on, these gases can be released from the tank in a controlled manner using the same molecular pumps. Respirocytes mimic the action of the natural hemoglobin-filled red blood cells.