Microrobotics and microorganisms: Biohybrid autonomous cellular robots

Y Alapan, O Yasa, B Yigit, IC Yasa… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Biohybrid microrobots, composed of a living organism integrated with an artificial carrier,
offer great advantages for the miniaturization of devices with onboard actuation, sensing …

Recent progress in magnetically actuated microrobots for targeted delivery of therapeutic agents

J Choi, J Hwang, J Kim, H Choi - Advanced Healthcare …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Therapeutic agents, such as drugs and cells, play an essential role in virtually every
treatment of injury, illness, or disease. However, the conventional practices of drug delivery …

Multifunctional surface microrollers for targeted cargo delivery in physiological blood flow

Y Alapan, U Bozuyuk, P Erkoc, AC Karacakol, M Sitti - Science robotics, 2020 - science.org
Mobile microrobots offer great promise for minimally invasive targeted medical theranostic
applications at hard-to-access regions inside the human body. The circulatory system …

Soft erythrocyte-based bacterial microswimmers for cargo delivery

Y Alapan, O Yasa, O Schauer, J Giltinan, AF Tabak… - Science robotics, 2018 - science.org
Bacteria-propelled biohybrid microswimmers have recently shown to be able to actively
transport and deliver cargos encapsulated into their synthetic constructs to specific regions …

Mobile microrobots for active therapeutic delivery

P Erkoc, IC Yasa, H Ceylan, O Yasa… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in the versatility and sophistication of design, fabrication, and control
methods of mobile microrobots could have a transforming impact on future healthcare …

Shape anisotropy-governed locomotion of surface microrollers on vessel-like microtopographies against physiological flows

U Bozuyuk, Y Alapan, A Aghakhani… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Surface microrollers are promising microrobotic systems for controlled navigation in the
circulatory system thanks to their fast speeds and decreased flow velocities at the vessel …

Exploiting machine learning for bestowing intelligence to microfluidics

J Zheng, T Cole, Y Zhang, J Kim, SY Tang - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2021 - Elsevier
Intelligent microfluidics is an emerging cross-discipline research area formed by combining
microfluidics with machine learning. It uses the advantages of microfluidics, such as high …

Advances in microfluidic devices made from thermoplastics used in cell biology and analyses

E Gencturk, S Mutlu, KO Ulgen - Biomicrofluidics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Silicon and glass were the main fabrication materials of microfluidic devices, however,
plastics are on the rise in the past few years. Thermoplastic materials have recently been …

Advances in microfluidics for single red blood cell analysis

GV Grigorev, AV Lebedev, X Wang, X Qian… - Biosensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The utilizations of microfluidic chips for single RBC (red blood cell) studies have attracted
great interests in recent years to filter, trap, analyze, and release single erythrocytes for …

Combining microfluidics with machine learning algorithms for RBC classification in rare hereditary hemolytic anemia

V Rizzuto, A Mencattini, B Álvarez-González… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Combining microfluidics technology with machine learning represents an innovative
approach to conduct massive quantitative cell behavior study and implement smart decision …