Microfluidic technology is creating powerful tools for cell biologists to control the complete
cellular microenvironment, leading to new questions and new discoveries. We review here …

The biological cell is equipped with a variety of molecular machines that perform complex
mechanical tasks such as cell division or intracellular transport. One can envision employing …

Since its introduction in the nineties, the negative resist SU‐8 has been increasingly used in
micro‐and nanotechnologies. SU‐8 has made the fabrication of high‐aspect ratio structures …

The dynamic cytoskeletal components, biomolecular motors and their associated filaments,
can be integrated in vitro with synthetic components to enable nanoscale transport systems …

Biomolecular motors, in particular motor proteins from the kinesin and myosin families, can
be used to explore engineering applications of molecular motors in general. Their …

Control of the transport and organization of nano-and microscale materials and molecules is
a continuing challenge in nanoscience and bio-microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) …

Biological motors (eg, kinesins) load/unload particular types of cargoes (eg, vesicles)
without external stimuli, and transport them along cytoskeletal filaments such as …

Molecular motor-driven filament systems have been extensively explored for biomedical and
nanotechnological applications such as lab-on-chip molecular detection or network-based …

The design of nanoscale transport systems utilizing motor proteins as engines has
advanced rapidly. Here, actin/myosin-and microtubule/kinesin-based molecular shuttles are …

Conventional kinesin is routinely adsorbed to hydrophilic surfaces such as SiO 2.
Pretreatment of surfaces with casein has become the standard protocol for achieving optimal …