Title :
Preliminary Investigation of Bio-carriers Using Magnetotactic Bacteria
Author :
Lu, Zhao ; Martel, Sylvain
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Univ. de Montreal, Que.
fDate :
Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006
Abstract :
This paper proposes a novel micro-carrier based on magnetotactic bacteria (MTB). To confirm the feasibility of such carriers, the thrust force of the bacteria is evaluated. By measuring the swimming speed of MC-1 bacteria in an unbounded medium, a thrust of 4 pN generated by a single MC-1 bacterium is found. The effects on the MTB´s swimming speed under the control of micro-electromagnets and influenced by the wall effects when each MTB is attached to a microbead are investigated
Keywords :
bioMEMS; biological fluid dynamics; cellular biophysics; electromagnets; microchannel flow; microorganisms; microrobots; MC-1 bacterial cell; bio-carriers; magnetotactic bacteria; micro-carrier; micro-electromagnets; microbead; microchannel; microrobots; swimming bacteria; thrust force; unbounded medium; Biomedical computing; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical measurements; Cities and towns; Laboratories; Magnetic fields; Microorganisms; Temperature; USA Councils; Uniform resource locators; Bio-carrier; magnetotactic bacteria; micro-robot; thrust;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0032-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260299
