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ArticleAPL bioengineering2020

Biohybrid systems: Borrowing from nature to make better machines.

Arianna Menciassi, Shoji Takeuchi, Roger D Kamm

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Article in APL bioengineering, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Morphological, Behavioral, and Transcriptomic Life Cycle of Anthrobots.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  7. Motile Living Biobots Self-Construct from Adult Human Somatic Progenitor Seed Cells.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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  9. Will microfluidics enable functionally integrated biohybrid robots?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Arianna MenciassiThe BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, P.za Martiri della Libertà, 33, Pisa 56127, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6348-1081
Shoji TakeuchiCenter for International Research on Integrative Biomedical Systems, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6946-0409
Roger D KammDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7232-304X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID32596624
PMCPMC7304995

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Registered trials

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