Hybrid micro-robot to advance precision drug delivery and single-cell analysis
Nano Magazine - 28-Mar-2023Electric- and magnetic-powered tiny robot able to identify, capture, and transport single cell autonomously
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Professor at Tel Aviv University and Head of the TAU Micro-Fluidics and Nano-Robotics Laboratory
Israeli biochemist, biophysicist and nanotechnologist, Professor and Chair at Tel Aviv University
Professor and the Director of the Laboratory of Precision NanoMedicine at Tel Aviv University
Electric- and magnetic-powered tiny robot able to identify, capture, and transport single cell autonomously
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