The robot you swallow to 実験（する） for 癌

Pat Hagan

Last updated at 22:00 29 January 2007

A robot that is swallowed and travels through the 団体／死体 looking for 癌 is 存在 developed by scientists.

The pill-sized gadget will be able to 実験（する） for tumours inside the 団体／死体 and 送信する／伝染させる findings 支援する to a computer.

It will also have a miniature ビデオ camera to 逮捕（する） around 40,000 images of the intestines.

It will be able to 実験（する） for tumours inside the 団体／死体 and 送信する／伝染させる findings 支援する to a computer.

研究員s behind the 革命の装置予報する it could 結局 save thousands of 患者s from painful 生体検査s or 外科 to 調査／捜査する癌 of the gastrointestinal tract, which 影響する／感情s up to 2,000 people a year in England and むちの跡s.

Because the camera images are 即時に beamed 支援する to a PC, there is no need to retrieve the robot once it has finished.

Instead, it just passes through the 団体／死体自然に and disappears 負かす／撃墜する the 洗面所.

The 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の発明, which is 存在基金d by the European Union to the tune of around ￡1.8 million, is based on 存在するing camera 科学（工学）技術, called PillCam.

This is already used in some NHS hospitals to （悪事，秘密などを）発見する条件s such as Crohn's 病気.

PillCam uses a 類似の pillshaped camera to look for 調印するs of inflammation in the lining of the 結腸.

But while PillCam takes only pictures of inflammation, the new robot pill will be able to carry out 実験（する）s inside the gut to distinguish cancerous tissue from healthy tissue.

It will then 警報 doctors by transmitting its findings, in many 事例／患者s 判決，裁定 out the need for 外科.

The robot is 推定する／予想するd to work in a number of ways. It will analyse fluid given off by tissues for 手がかり（を与える）s about whether cancerous 独房s are 現在の.

Rather than have the robot 簡単に collect these fluids and then 診察する them in the 研究室／実験室, 専門家s say the 分析 is best done inside the 団体／死体.

Tha t's because the fluids could be destroyed during the 旅行 through the 厳しい環境 of the digestive tract.

The 装置 will also be equipped to 位置／汚点／見つけ出す癌 by emitting light and analysing the way it is 反映するd by tissues in the gut.

Cancerous tissue tends to 吸収する more light because it creates a 網状組織 of 血大型船s to 料金d the tumour with oxygen.

Doctors 見解（をとる）ing from a computer 審査する will also be able to 'park' the robot and take a closer look at 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う tissue.

存在するing camera 装置s travel through the 団体／死体儀礼 of the muscle 収縮過程s in the digestive tract.

But this means it's impossible to 支配（する）／統制する their movement from outside.

研究員s say this is a bit like peering through a train window, with no way to turn 支援する and get a better look.

To 支配（する）／統制する the new robot, scientists are 実験ing with special grippers that can be 活動させる／戦時編成するd by an 電気の signal outside the 団体／死体, 同様に as using magnets.