A Lancaster man was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges stemming from his alleged use of a drone to deliver fentanyl and other narcotics to buyers, one of whom died of an overdose. Christopher Patrick "Crany" Laney, 34, has been charged with one count of distributing fentanyl resulting in death, four counts of operating an unregistered aircraft in furtherance of a felony narcotics crime, one count of possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, two counts of possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute, and one count of possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, according to the grand jury indictment. Federal prosecutors alleged that on several occasions in December 2022 and January 2023, Laney used an unregistered drone to transport fentanyl and other narcotics from his home to a nearby church parking lot, where someone collected the drugs before distributing them to buyers. At least one of those people included a woman who died of an overdose in January 2023. The federal grand indictment also accuses Laney of being in possession of methamphetamine and fentanyl at his home, along with multiple firearms lacking serial numbers -- weapons that are referred to as "ghost guns."

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An invention by scientists in the Netherlands aims to break up blood clots without surgery or drugs. Blood clots are a serious health problem that can cause strokes, heart attacks and even death. Some blood clots can be removed by doctors using a flexible tool that goes inside the affected vein or artery, but others are too hard to reach. What if there was a way to break up those clots without surgery or drugs? CLICK TO GET KURT'S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH SECURITY ALERTS, QUICK VIDEO TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER Scientists have created tiny robots that can swim through your blood vessels and drill into the clots.

Okay, I know what you're probably thinking. We've been hearing about the use of tiny robots in medicine for years, maybe even decades. Where are my medical microbots already? They're coming, says Brad Nelson, who works in robotics at ETH Zürich. And they could be a game changer for a number of serious diseases.

Medical robots controlled by edible computer chips could deliver drugs inside the body, say researchers. Similar robots could also be used to deliver drugs or vital nutrients to at-risk animals and then naturally biodegrade. Soft robots that can operate inside the human body are a busy area of research, but they tend to be remotely controlled from outside the body with magnets.

Tiny robots with soft, flexible bodies and spiky feet can climb along the moist, slippery inner walls of the lungs and the gut where they could one day deliver drugs and medical sensors in hard-to-reach places. The new "millirobot" – which is a few millimetres long – has feet that stick to tissue surfaces without losing their grip. The robot can resist being dislodged by jarring movements and can even cling to a surface as liquids flush over it, resembling the movement of fluids associated with breathing and digestion. Capable of climbing straight up – and even upside down – inside the human body, the wireless device represents "a significant milestone in soft robotics", says Metin Sitti at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany. Sitti's previous millirobot could walk, roll, swim, jump and crawl along biological tissues, he says.

A wireless origami-inspired robot could travel through the digestive system, releasing accurate drug doses at the site they will be most effective. Qiji Ze at Stanford University in California and his colleagues have built a 7.8-millimetre robot from polypropylene film that is just 0.05 millimetres thick. At each end is a thin magnetic plate that enables external magnetic fields to control the robot's movement as it travels inside a body.

Researchers have designed miniature robots that are inspired by cells and steered by ultrasound that could one day navigate the human body and help deliver drugs to certain parts of it. These'rocket ships,' as described by scientists at Cornell University, have a design that is inspired by both bacteria and sperm cells. The robots, which could navigate through the human body are controlled remotely and could take advantage of some features of sperm and bacteria cells, including the fact that bacteria can swim 10 times their body length and sperm can go against the flow. 'We can make airplanes that are better than birds nowadays,' said study co-author, Mingming Wu, professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell, in a statement. 'But at the smallest scale, there are many situations that nature is doing much better than us.

Tiny robots that can climb slopes, move against the flow of fluids and travel over obstacles could one day deliver drugs to specific areas in the human body. A team of scientists, led by Weinberg Medical Physics in Maryland, have designed soft robots called MANiACs that are controlled by an external magnetic field to deliver medication to exact locations. Findings, published in Frontiers in Robotics and Ai, show how the MANiACs (magnetically aligned nanorods in alginate capsules) could perform as drug delivery vehicles inside parts of the human body that are hard to reach by oral or intravenous medication. This is the first study to test how microrobots perform in the central nervous system (CNS). The MANiACs' technology is reminiscent of the premise in the 1966 sci-fi film'Fantastic Voyage,' in which a group of scientists shrink a submarine and themselves to travel inside a patient's brain.

A glue-like magnetic spray can turn objects, such as pills, into mini robots that can be controlled by magnets and navigated through the body. The sprayed objects can be made to roll, flip and crawl using a magnetic field. Shen Yajing at City University of Hong Kong and his colleagues even used the spray to animate the wings of an origami crane. "Our spray can convert various tiny objects to mini robots directly," says Yajing. The object can be flat or three-dimensional, he says, and only a thin coating of spray is required.