Bioengineered and biohybrid bacteria-based systems for drug delivery

Z Hosseinidoust, B Mostaghaci, O Yasa… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2016 - Elsevier
The use of bacterial cells as agents of medical therapy has a long history. Research that was
ignited over a century ago with the accidental infection of cancer patients has matured into a …

Advancements in microfluidics for nanoparticle separation

T Salafi, KK Zeming, Y Zhang - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoparticles have been widely implemented for healthcare and nanoscience industrial
applications. Thus, efficient and effective nanoparticle separation methods are essential for …

Biohybrid robots: recent progress, challenges, and perspectives

VA Webster-Wood, M Guix, NW Xu… - Bioinspiration & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The past ten years have seen the rapid expansion of the field of biohybrid robotics. By
combining engineered, synthetic components with living biological materials, new robotics …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid biomicromotors

L Schwarz, M Medina-Sánchez… - Applied Physics Reviews, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Micromotors are devices that operate at the microscale and convert energy to motion. Many
micromotors are microswimmers, ie, devices that can move freely in a liquid at a low …

Bacterial biohybrid microswimmers

J Bastos-Arrieta, A Revilla-Guarinos… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Over millions of years, Nature has optimized the motion of biological systems at the micro
and nanoscales. Motor proteins to motile single cells have managed to overcome Brownian …

Motility and chemotaxis of bacteria-driven microswimmers fabricated using antigen 43-mediated biotin display

O Schauer, B Mostaghaci, R Colin, D Hürtgen… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Bacteria-driven biohybrid microswimmers (bacteriabots) combine synthetic cargo with motile
living bacteria that enable propulsion and steering. Although fabrication and potential use of …

Biohybrid micro/nanomotors for biomedical applications

W Xu, H Qin, H Tian, L Liu, J Gao, F Peng, Y Tu - Applied Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Inspired by different kinds of functional natural biomotors, highly versatile artificial
micro/nanomotors, capable of converting external energies into their own mechanical …

Hylozoic by design: Converging material and biological complexities for cell‐driven living materials with 4D behaviors

K Shariati, AS Ling, S Fuchs… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of novel techniques in biology and material science, coupled with greater
understandings of cell–material interactions, have given rise to the creation of living …

Propulsion and chemotaxis in bacteria‐driven microswimmers

J Zhuang, BW Park, M Sitti - Advanced Science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the large body of experimental work recently on biohybrid microsystems, few studies
have focused on theoretical modeling of such systems, which is essential to understand their …