3D‐printed microrobotic transporters with recapitulated stem cell niche for programmable and active cell delivery

IC Yasa, AF Tabak, O Yasa, H Ceylan… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Poor retention rate, low targeting accuracy, and spontaneous transformation of stem cells
present major clinical barriers to the success of therapies based on stem cell transplantation …

Recent progress of micro/nanorobots for cell delivery and manipulation

W Chen, H Zhou, B Zhang, Q Cao… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Micro/nanorobots have attracted significant interest in the biomedical field due to their
micro/nano scale sizes and autonomously untethered motions. Meanwhile, stem cell‐based …

[HTML][HTML] 3D printed microtransporters: Compound micromachines for spatiotemporally controlled delivery of therapeutic agents

TY Huang, MS Sakar, A Mao, AJ Petruska… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Author Manuscript therapeutic approaches with minimal off-target effects can be particularly
efficacious. Targeted delivery of drugs, genetic material, and cells increases the …

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 …

Single cell manipulation using ferromagnetic composite microtransporters

MS Sakar, EB Steager, DH Kim, MJ Kim… - Applied physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
For biomedical applications, such as single cell manipulation, it is important to fabricate
microstructures that can be powered and controlled wirelessly in fluidic environments. In this …

Fabrication and characterization of magnetic microrobots for three‐dimensional cell culture and targeted transportation

S Kim, F Qiu, S Kim, A Ghanbari, C Moon… - Advanced …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Medical microrobots are being widely studied for specific applications, such as targeted drug
delivery, biopsy, hyperthermia, radioactive therapy, scaffolding, in-vivo ablation, stenting …

Bioinspired helical micromotors as dynamic cell microcarriers

Y Yu, J Guo, Y Wang, C Shao, Y Wang… - ACS applied materials …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Micromotors have exhibited great potential in multidisciplinary nanotechnology,
environmental science, and especially biomedical engineering due to their advantages of …

Targeted drug delivery and imaging using mobile milli/microrobots: A promising future towards theranostic pharmaceutical design

A Vikram Singh, M Sitti - Current pharmaceutical design, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Miniature untethered medical robots have been receiving growing attention due to
technological advances in microactuation, microsensors, and microfabrication and have …

Multicompartment tubular micromotors toward enhanced localized active delivery

B Esteban‐Fernández de Ávila… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A tubular micromotor with spatially resolved compartments is presented toward efficient site‐
specific cargo delivery, with a back‐end zinc (Zn) propellant engine segment and an upfront …

Development of Magnet‐Driven and Image‐Guided Degradable Microrobots for the Precise Delivery of Engineered Stem Cells for Cancer Therapy

T Wei, J Liu, D Li, S Chen, Y Zhang, J Li, L Fan, Z Guan… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Precise delivery of therapeutic cells to the desired site in vivo is an emerging and promising
cellular therapy in precision medicine. This paper presents the development of a magnet …