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That sort of system would be a pretty lofty goal, but realize that all of the challenges here are biological or biophysical. How do you recognize a pathogen? How do you target and deliver to specific tissues? How do you avoid the host immune system and degradation? Even if the nano-scale tech were there for the computational aspect, the real challenges would be the same ones scientists currently face, except on a larger scale.


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