What if doctors could inject robots the size of microorganisms into our bloodstreams and send them to attack individual cancer cells, remove plaque deposits from the walls of our arteries, fix damaged kidneys, deliver drug treatments and perform various bodily repairs from the inside on a scale too tiny for regular-sized human surgeons to attempt?
About Patrick J. Kiger, Science Writer. Patrick J. Kiger has written from print publications ranging from GQ to the Los Angeles Times, and is a longtime contributor to Discovery.com, HowStuffWorks, and other web sites.
For several years, he wrote the Science Channel's "Is This a Good Idea?" blog, and we are proud to have him back! He's also the author of Science Channel's Story of the Week Feature and Creator of Head Rush Science Experiments for Kids.
Patrick is also the co-author, with Martin J. Smith, of Poplorica: A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore that Shaped Modern America HarperResource, 2004), and Oops: 20 Life Lessons from the Fiascoes That Shaped America (Collins, 2006). Both are now available on Kindle.
You can see more of his work at www.patrickjkiger.com
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