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Sarvesh Kumar Srivastava1, Mariana Medina-Sánchez1, Britta Koch1
1Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstraße 20, 01069, Dresden, Germany.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|December 1, 2015
Abstract:
An innovative concept for the fabrication of dual-action microrobots capable of performing single-cell microsurgery along with a site-directed drug-delivery feature is presented. These multi-action plant-derived biocompatible "medibots" can play a pivotal role in understanding micromotor interactions at the cellular level, aiming toward the destruction of harmful cells (like cancer) among others in living systems.
