Israeli scientists unveil mini-robot that can travel through bloodstream

All end-of-humanity stories came to mind as I read along this. So many really wrong and wicked things can be done with such a tiny thing, we have no defense against this kind of weapon. On the other end, a huge candle of hope was lit. Imagine burning cancer cells with an extremely precise accuracy, and all you have to do is get a shot at the local drugstore. One day you're a dead man walking, the next day you're DaVinci's favorite model. I'm scared of how many possibilities this presents. I can't actually find the right words to start placing a picture on your heads. All we can do for now is hope that just this once, man is not going to go down that all too familiar self-destructive path.

First and foremost, I must commend the Israeli scientist for realizing such an impressive new technology. To Muhammad and Genesis, although there maybe hearsay evidence to what you claim, there is no hard proof. I am not the biggest fan of the Israeli foreign policy, but that has nothing to do with their scientific research, which is remarkable to say the least. To Real Vision: my friend, Islam begs its followers to question the religion, for it is only through questioning and not blind following does one truly embrace the religion. The Islam represented in Western media is false and not accurate. However, I must agree with you in that our religious leaders do not focus on bettering ourselves but rather shift blame on the Israelis for our decrepit state. This is wrong. Your claim though, that Islam is causing violence, is invalid. It is rather people claiming to represent Islam that are the perpetrators of said violence. I would recommend that you look further into the Islam

daniel - i honestly wish you to have at least as successful research as i and my team. in fact - unless youre using crt monitor - you are looking at it right now. there is part of our effort in every lcd display. and by no means am i jealous, or i hate jews. i admire jews for their intelligence and hard work they put in every project we worked on together. the rule of thumb is, however, they are amazing as long, as they stay away from israeli government. because when they do get involved with your govt or govt funded institutions, too many [not all, of course] of them become back stabbing traitors and thiefs. and as you've written - id love to put all the effort i can into improving my skills - but i cant. i have to protect my research from spies, also. and while i used to be afraid of chinese and russian spies-who never were our allies, i never expected an israeli - a person from an allied state and a close friend of us - to steal research, and they did - twice. should i just forget?

Continue to bark, Muhammad, Genesis,and others, because we shall continue to ride.

Jewish minds didn?t choose to do research outside Israel; they were born and educated in foreign countries and many Nobel Prize winners never had political or religious affiliation with Israel. Jews awarded with Nobel Prizes are Americans, Hungarians, Germans, Russians and even Israelis. 30 were awarded prior to State of Israel was founded, many more before Internet was available to the public. Achievements were obtained at institutions around the world, so your statement of ?data exported to Israel? is unfit. Very few ?discoveries? are result of a single individual - work is based on research done by other theories, lab results and analytical studies. If you were developing a new product, wouldn?t you announce to the community about your results? If you were Jewish wouldn?t you be proud? Maybe you should consider investing more of your time in education and less in blaming Jews for your problems and incapacity.

hi there nik, my anserws to william were not published, maybe this will go. its not my fault the brightest jewish minds choose to do their research outside israel. if you're jewish you're probably proud that jews have received most noble prizes in science. but why dont you check where most of the research was done - small hint - not in israel. when a scientist is doing research on, say, caltech, he signes an agreement. basically all that is suppossed to stay in caltech, must stay there. yet, too many jews choose to 'export' sensitive data to israel. william is right, in one thing, - they're not only jews and its not only to israel. chinese stealing data for china, south koreans for rsa, russians and french are high on the list. chinese are first, israelis and non-israeli jews with misplaced loyalties are second. there are some 1,5 billion chinese, how many jews? if israelis are stealing almost as much as chinese, and there are much fewer in numbers, who can be called a 'bigger' thief?

",,,it`s no secret jewish scientists are considered to be among the best in the world. so it is very reasonable to assume every major technological development in israel is most likely based on technology stolen from other countries." Fantastic logic! I applaud you! Jewish scientists are considered to be amongst the best in the world. Israel is a Jewish state, with her own scientists. Therefore all her achievements are stolen from other states! Bravo, well done! Next you can go on to prove that 2+2=5, black is white, and a speeding arrow can never reach a slow moving tortoise!

You were asked to provide proof for your claims, and that is all. I for one would throw out your claims based on the exact reason you presented "and this was 1998." Exactly, it was 9 years ago. It fails to list any offenses, only that it was reviewing Israel "out of many others in the world". And with the govt's track record of security agencies lately you would be hardpressed to find factual information there. I point you to another trend - countries like China, Latvia, Estonia, N. Korea still remain on the list of countries being watched by INTERPOL, WTO, CIA, FBI, MI6...and yet, Israel is not even mentioned. Are you really trying to prove this nano-technology was stolen or is this a diatribe of the most heinous type involving your own agenda which stems from your lack of personal successes? I am from the Biotech community, both in Boston and Israel. I know who owns what because its public in OUR community.

herbie- its a rule, that whenever something 'bad' is said about israel, even though its true, its always labeled by someone as 'antisemitism'. really - this is such a nonsense, its funny in a way. for the record - i have a jewish blood in me, and i do not consider myself 'self-hating', so just go back to bed, and stay in your unreal fantasy world, where israel is nothing less, but a brightest star in the sky. and yoni - your response is logical. there is no way for me to prove exactly where this technology was obtained. (...) just to give you a glimse of the problem: http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/7789/edition_id/148/format/html/displaystory.html and this was 1998. since then, the situation got much worse - in terms of israel going up the list. and remember this: "Israel is not involved in any sort of espionage either within or against the United States," said Gadi Baltiansky, a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Your venom-filled hate posts prompted me to call a friend in the MIT Patent Trade Office and ask about this technology. They acknowledged they too are studying this type of technology (as are tens of universities around the world) and that Israel is one of them. There was no breach of technology and no consideration within the department on whether Israeli technology was there own. As she said "They're smart people over there. I have no doubt they got to the final product first, just as other labs work towards other technologies in parallel." Tough break, you idiots! But I think we did prove one thing today - that hate runs very deep and the ego is a terrible thing to have.

I was also looking into your claims that interpol says Israel is leading corporate espionage in the west. Can't find anything. Again, source? Let me guess - you don't have one? At least, not a reputable one?

Having attended one of the UK's 'big four' universities I can tell you that there are more anti-Israel than pro-Israel, in my expereince, but the majority are definitely uninterested. Regarding the boycotters - you are right, those sayng that this should be witheld are wrong. However, the British academics who are a voting part of the union shoud refuse to use it, both for their research and their health. Unless, that is, they are a bunch of hipocrites!

Funny, i couldn't find any evidence suggesting your claim is true. Care to provide us with reputable scholarly sources? Perhaps MIT issuing a statement that some of their technology has been stolen? if you can, that's great, otherwise nobody here can take you seriously. You have no evidence, no source.

First, let us all acknowledge that Muhammud and Genesis are just racist and anti-semitic never wanting to acknowledge that Israel is full of good things and has greatly benefitted humanity. Am African, studied in top research university in the US and never had of such a bigotted lie about Isreal stealing technlogy! Can't you for once accept that Israel and Jews have made immense contributions to the welfare of humanity!! Congratulations to all the brains that have made this possible. May God add to their wisdom. The wisest man that ever lived was Solomon a Jew who live in Israel. So pliz accept and concentrate on improving humanity's conditions. Peace be upon Israel

You certainly are a very unhappy guy because you spend to much of your time obssesed navigating israeli sites. Cool down is not good for your emotional health, try valium. Let me share something with you:Iran just launched an English-language news channel. That's gonna be more good for you to watch.Pay no attention to these israeli sites,is not good for your blood pressure,either. Salaam!!

Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense that this was stolen from MIT. Wouldn't MIT have said something? I've never heard a peep from any alleged victim that Israel stole their research. I would think that MIT would have a vested interest in proving if this was true. In addition, MIT probably has the resources to track if their networks are being or have been hacked. In addition, I (a Jew) studied in one of the top engineering schools in the US, and no one from Israel ever approached me about stealing technology being developed there.

BRAVO! Excellent post.

just as someone mentioned before me - israel is considered in the west to be the largest threat, in terms of technological espionage. and it's no secret - interpol, csis, nsa, even fbi openly acknowledge it. additional problem with israel is that unlike other major spying nations - china and russia, who are in most cases under greater counter-intelligence 'surveillance', israel has many 'silent' supporters among scientists in major research organisations, many of them jews - because it's no secret jewish scientists are considered to be among the best in the world. so it is very reasonable to assume every major technological development in israel is most likely based on technology stolen from other countries. thats a small info for all you 'oh great great israel contributor to world science' nonsense. jews around the world - absolutely yes. israel as a state - thief, no less, no more.

The israeli contribution to mankind is: CRIME! No matter how you try to distort the truth you cannot erase it: israel STOLE this technology from MIT.

a whole host of SICK brits........LOL

to # 19: muhammud, SURE: this technology was stolen. sure. it was stolen from one of the worldwide well known and famous arab institutes for technological development. one of the many famous arab development institutes that contribute to the well-being of mankind...... i do undertand that you are frustrated, and feel sorry that you have to feel that way. but do not spread blood libel kind of stories. try to make your people contributing to science instead.

tell me muhammed when was the last time any of you 1 billion muslims contributed anything positive to SOLVING ANY of the world's problems. Instead of criticizing Israel you should applaud its creativity and it incredible contributions to science, technology, physics, etc. It is unfortunate that your so called religious leadership WORLDWIDE would rather you spend all you waking moments trying to kill 16 million productive jews rather than try to give your fellow man a better standard of living. It is a disgrace to GOD the level of violence Islam is causing worldwide. You should be ashamed with your religion and the sheep that follow without being able to QUESTION it

Iran developed this tech already. They just haven't figured out how to make it blow up yet.

From the point of view of the anti Israeli boycott; It would be interesting to see how British society would react if all requests for the sharing of this potentially life-saving technology would have to be routed through the College of Judea & Samaria. Additionally, if such requests were to be made public, it might go a long way to discredit the xenophobic anti-semites so prevelant in the British left.

Some write here, that "Britain declared boycott on Israel so it should not be allowed to use this robot". This is, sorry for the blunt word, a bullshit. Britain did not declare boycott of Israel. A group of activists did. Most of them have no authority in sciences, only in trade union activism. These declarations don't worth paper they are written on. It's obvious, that people, who promote this phony "boycotts" are either racists or fools. There are such people in any nation, also in Israel. Of course, cooperation between Israel and Britain should continue, there are many friends of Israel in Britain, specially among educated and smart people - and I mean really educated and smart ones, not the half educated fools from trade unions and radical groups. I think it's fundamentally wrong to blacken all of British people because of the deeds of few morally corrupt and stupid people.

Accordiong to INTERPOL, israel is the UNDISPUTED LEADER in INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE. The technology used to design the miniature robot was stolen from MIT in the United States. The israeli company employed computer hackers to obtain the original designs and later altered them to aviod criminal and civil penalties.

This phenomenal medical and science breakthrough is not only cutting edge futuristic medical aid in diagnosing the entire slew of blood related diseases which practically encompasses every ailment besetting the Human Race but is a harbinger of the true value of nanotechnology available to the exploration of our universe. I wonder if the committee for awarding the Noble Prize for Medical and Science discovery will recognition this valuable discovery and award it the Noble Prize, since it was developed I Israel and that committee is located in ?Oslo? the forerunner of approving and encouraging all others to Shun, Boycott and distance themselves from Israel

the contributions to humanity health and science are of great value to the entire world. that's why all nations should stand up to the tyrany of iran and syria and make it in their best interest to keep israel safe and secure.

as long as they have their stupid boycott the british people cannot benefit from the brilliance of the Israeli Jewish mind.

Asimov considered himself a "humanist", although prior to that, he described himself as an atheist. His attachment to Judaism was sentimental only, and had nothing to do with either the religion or Jewish peoplehood. He was an extreme leftist-liberal, allying himself with Abbie Hoffman, and later with George McGovern, and had no Jewish views at all.

Natalie is partially correct. Asimov's "Fantastic Voyage" (and the spinoff movie "Inner Space" both involved shrinking a shuttle with human astronauts to a height of 1 mm. for travel inside a human body. The submarine was invented a scientist read Verne's 20,000 Leagues; LASERs came from Wells' "War of The Worlds"; the fax machine was invented while trying to immitate Rodenberry's "Star Trek" teleporter and the testube-baby was born (pun intended) from Huxley's "Brave New World". This is why we need great literature as well as great scientists.

Oh dear, developed in an Israeli research lab. Sorry English, it's of no use to you! I guess you won't be advancing nanotechnology as you can't base it on the most moodern research. Oh well, never mind, I'm sure something equally important will come out of an Arab university soon!

Actually, they should boycott it because it is the product of Israeli academic research. They are not terribly particular from which university or college. As an academic at Hadassah College in Jerusalem I am also subject to the boycott.

The Fantastic Voyage included humans miniaturised to enter the body - this doesn't. If this was a large robot miniaturised then yes, credit to Asimov, as it is it is just a very small robot. And what makes you think Asimov was secular? Althugh a self-procliamed Humanist he married a Jewess and had two Jewish children by her and please read the follwing quote from his offical website: "Asimov was proud of his Jewish heritage. His parents never made an effort to teach him religion. He did study in Hebrew school for several months while his father served as secretary for the local synagogue, where he learned some Hebrew and how to read Yiddish. Asimov did have a great interest in the Bible, and wrote several books about it." I do see what you are doing though, as someone you think worthy of respect you are trying to remove his Jewishness from him. How tolerant of you, let me guess, you're not anti-semitic, one of your friends is a Joo!

Watch out! The jews will now infect you directly into your bloodstream.

The 250 ml. of the rest in M.E.what did they do?

Fantastic Voyage i think it was called. I do think that they should credit Asimov with the original idea. He was a Jew, although very secular.

It could be an expensive procedure,unavailable to just everybody. Unless one is a pal,the Israeli Medical Association demands to treat for free. Israeli taxpayers are footing the bill of medical treatment of mortal enemies of the State.

I hope the Brits will be desperate for this technology and the Israelis refuse it to them. What latest breakthorughs have come out of the UK. Long live the boycott and israel reverse to it. You boycott us so you can't benefit from our technology. And for the record if Israel is accused of being hate monger and against peace why would they develop stuff that is good for humanity

Back to the 15th century with the allies of the left,the Islamists leading the charge.

One wonders if the pro boycott lobby would refuse to use this device if it meant saving their own lives. Laugh? I almost bought my own beer!!

Because it is connected with the College of Judea and Samaria.

For the world to see. I wish Isaac Asimov would've seen that! Or Woody Allen...