ReviewAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2025
Engineering Magnetotactic Bacteria as Medical Microrobots.
Review in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- CD4Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Pooled it
- Natural Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Produced by Aquatic Magnetotactic Bacteria as Ideal Nanozymes for Nano-Guided Biosensing Platforms-A Systematic Review.Biosensors · 2025Pooled it
- Engineered bacterial therapeutics from synthetic biology to clinical translation: A multi-database scientometric analysis, 2000-2026.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Review
- Adaptive intrathecal nanorobotics in mice and nonhuman primates for navigated CNS therapy.Science advances · 2026Article
- Revisiting Colloid Theory for Biomedicine: Reconciling Simple Models in Complex Environments.ACS nano medicine · 2026Article
- Chemical and Technological Aspects of Magnetic Particles for Cancer Liquid Biopsy Applications.ChemistryOpen · 2026Review
- Hydrogel-Based Micro/Nanorobots for Advanced Biomedical Applications.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Image-based physical characterization of magnetotactic bacteria from an environmental sample.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Metabolic Gadolinium Labeling ofBiomaterials research · 2026Article
- Hybrid-Driven Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Carrier for Targeted Immuno-Chemo Combo Therapy in Bladder Cancer.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Collective Response and Navigation Dynamics of Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense under Rotating Magnetic Fields.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- Engineered Bacteria-Nano Hybrid System: The Intelligent Drug Factory for Next-Generation Cancer Immunotherapy.Pharmaceutics · 2025Review
- Organizing organelles: bacterial strategies for localizing intracellular compartments.Current opinion in microbiology · 2025Review
- Updates on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Microscopic and Spectroscopic Characterization of Magnetotactic Bacteria for Biosensor Applications.Biosensors · 2025Review
- Engineering Magnetotactic Bacteria as Medical Microrobots.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Review
- Biomaterials mediated 3R (remove-remodel-repair) strategy: holistic management of Helicobacter pylori infection.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Nature's ability to create complex and functionalized organisms has long inspired engineers and scientists to develop increasingly advanced machines. Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB), a group of Gram-negative prokaryotes that biomineralize iron and thrive in aquatic environments, have garnered significant attention from the bioengineering community. These bacteria possess chains of magnetic nanocrystals known as magnetosomes, which allow them to align with Earth's geomagnetic field and navigate through aquatic environments via magnetotaxis, enabling localization to areas rich in nutrients and optimal oxygen concentration. Their built-in magnetic components, along with their intrinsic and/or modified biological functions, make them one of the most promising platforms for future medical microrobots. Leveraging an externally applied magnetic field, the motion of MTBs can be precisely controlled, rendering them suitable for use as a new type of biohybrid microrobotics with great promise in medicine for bioimaging, drug delivery, cancer therapy, antimicrobial treatment, and detoxification. This mini-review provides an up-to-date overview of recent advancements in MTB microrobots, delineates the interaction between MTB microrobots and magnetic fields, elucidates propulsion mechanisms and motion control, and reports state-of-the-art strategies for modifying and functionalizing MTB for medical applications.
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