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SUBMITTER: Nagel O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6364505 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nagel Oliver O Frey Manuel M Gerhardt Matthias M Beta Carsten C
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 20181128 3
Cell-driven microtransport is one of the most prominent applications in the emerging field of biohybrid systems. While bacterial cells have been successfully employed to drive the swimming motion of micrometer-sized cargo particles, the transport capacities of motile adherent cells remain largely unexplored. Here, it is demonstrated that motile amoeboid cells can act as efficient and versatile trucks to transport microcargo. When incubated together with microparticles, cells of the social amoeba ...[more]