“Theragrippers” inspired by a parasitic worm that clamps onto its host’s intestines – John Hopkins University

After seeing many videos showing an unknown entity crawling around facemasks I decided to buy a microscope and check it out myself. It was not long before I found something.

See you will see from the recording, top right of the screen a black thread type entity is present. When  moisture was placed on the mask via steam from a saucer of hot water the entity started to grow and move around.

Here are some links for connecting this entity to the John Hopkins University to be used as a form of drug delivery

Johns Hopkins Researchers Engineer Tiny, Shape-Changing Machines That Deliver Medicine Efficiently to the GI Tract

“Theragrippers” are inspired by a parasitic worm that clamps onto its host’s intestines – https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/johns-hopkins-researchers-engineer-tiny-shape-changing-machines-that-deliver-medicine-efficiently-to-the-gi-tract

Researchers engineer tiny, shape-changing machines that deliver medicine to the GI tract – https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301630

Johns Hopkins Researchers engineer tiny machines that deliver medicine efficiently – https://bioengineer.org/johns-hopkins-researchers-engineer-tiny-machines-that-deliver-medicine-efficiently/

Researchers engineer tiny machines that deliver medicine efficiently – https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201103132738.htm

Intracellular pH-activated PEG-b-PDPA wormlike micelles for hydrophobic drug delivery – https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/py/c3py00849e#!divAbstract

Drug-Induced Morphology Switch in Drug Delivery Systems Based on Poly(2-oxazoline)s – https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/nn406388t

Micelles of Different Morphologies—Advantages of Worm-like Filomicelles of PEO-PCL in Paclitaxel Delivery – https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11095-007-9335-z