Tech
Emerging
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I
t is late summer of 1966. Americans flock to the-
aters to watch a science-fiction film titled
Fantastic
Voyage
. The plot revolves around a scientist named
Jan Benes. He has perfected a secret formula that
shrinks people and objects down to miniature size.
Later, Benes strikes his head and suffers a blood clot in
his brain. He has only a short time to live.
Tiny Treatments
Chapter 1
In
Fantastic Voyage
, a team of scientists and their
spaceship-like vehicle are shrunk to a tiny size
so they can cure an illness in a man’s body. Today’s
nanomedicine treatments work a lot like this.
