NanoprobesNanoprobes

Nanoprobes are generally positive things in medical device research circles. Google in 2014 mentioned the idea of nanoparticles that would be coated with a disease-detecting substance and possibly packed into a pill. Pioneering Scripps Health cardiologist Eric Topol, MD, has been working on blood stream nano sensor chips that could detect heart attacks. Self-reproducing medical nano robots inside the body could one day act as a "personal virus scanner" to fight germs and cancer cells, according to Guszti Eiben, an artificial intelligence professor at VU Amsterdam.

In Star Trek, however, nanoprobes are pretty scary. They are what the Borg inject into species they capture to turn them into drones for the "Collective." 

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