A review of automated microinjection systems for single cells in the embryogenesis stage

S Permana, E Grant, GM Walker… - … /ASME Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern genetics research has resulted in significant advances in cell in vitro microinjection
systems. Such systems provide biological and medical practitioners with high volume cell …

A review of automated microinjection of zebrafish embryos

Y Zhao, H Sun, X Sha, L Gu, Z Zhan, WJ Li - Micromachines, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cell microinjection is a technique of precise delivery of substances into cells and is widely
used for studying cell transfection, signaling pathways, and organelle functions …

High-precision motion of magnetic microrobot with ultrasonic levitation for 3-D rotation of single oocyte

L Feng, P Di, F Arai - The International Journal of Robotics …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study, we propose an innovative driving method for a microrobot. By using acoustic
levitation, the microrobot can be levitated from the glass substrate. We are able to achieve …

Three-dimensional rotation of mouse embryos

C Leung, Z Lu, XP Zhang, Y Sun - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research and clinical applications, such as microinjection and polar-body biopsy involve 3-
D rotation of mammalian oocytes/embryos. In these cell manipulation tasks, the polar body …

On the design, functions, and biomedical applications of high-throughput dielectrophoretic micro-/nanoplatforms: a review

Y Li, Y Wang, K Wan, M Wu, L Guo, X Liu, G Wei - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
As an efficient, rapid and label-free micro-/nanoparticle separation technique,
dielectrophoresis (DEP) has attracted widespread attention in recent years, especially in the …

Robotic cell rotation based on the minimum rotation force

Q Zhao, M Sun, M Cui, J Yu, Y Qin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a robotic cell rotation method based on the minimum rotation force is
presented to adjust oocyte orientation in biological applications. In this method, the minimum …

Three-dimensional cell rotation with fluidic flow-controlled cell manipulating device

Z Wang, C Feng, R Muruganandam… - IEEE/ASME …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three-dimensional positioning and orientation of a biological cell under a microscope is an
essential step for cell injection and biopsy. The conventional manual cell manipulation and …

Visual servoed three-dimensional cell rotation system

Z Wang, WT Latt, SYM Tan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three-dimensional (3-D) positioning and orientation of embryos/oocytes is necessary to
facilitate micromanipulation tasks such as cell injection and cellular structural biopsy …

Blastocyst microinjection automation

LS Mattos, E Grant, R Thresher… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blastocyst microinjections are routinely involved in the process of creating genetically
modified mice for biomedical research, but their efficiency is highly dependent on the skills …

Experimental characterization of the reverse micro-electrodischarge machining process for fabrication of high-aspect-ratio micro-rod arrays

SS Mujumdar, SA Mastud, RK Singh… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
High-aspect-ratio arrayed structures find application in the creation of deep blind holes used
in ink-jet nozzles, air-bearings, etc. This paper focuses on the use of reverse micro-electric …