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Spermbots: Concept and Applications

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Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (Living Machines 2017)

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Biohybrid systems are promising solutions in micro- and nanobiotechnology due to the possibility to combine exciting biological properties of living microorganisms/cells (e.g. sensing and taxis mechanisms), and the controllability of man-made microstructures. Here we present the development of tubular and helical spermbots, a concept that refers to a sperm-based microrobot. The recent achievements include the capture, guidance and release of motile and immotile sperm cells by artificial magnetic microstructures (microtubes, microhelices or four-armed microtubes). These approaches are interesting for potential applications in in vivo assisted fertilization and targeted drug delivery. The characteristics, challenges and possibilities are discussed in detail throughout this work.

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    Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Veronika Magdanz, Lukas Schwarz, Haifeng Xu & Oliver G. Schmidt

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Medina-Sánchez, M., Magdanz, V., Schwarz, L., Xu, H., Schmidt, O.G. (2017). Spermbots: Concept and Applications. In: Mangan, M., Cutkosky, M., Mura, A., Verschure, P., Prescott, T., Lepora, N. (eds) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10384. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63537-8_53

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