title: Preliminary investigation of bio-carriers using magnetotactic bacteria.
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.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Eng., Univ. de Montreal, QUE, Canada.
authors.forename: Zhao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Sylvain
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Martel
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria; D018407:Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D002196:Capillaries; D004337:Drug Carriers; D008280:Magnetics; D042201:Magnetospirillum / Q000502:physiology; D044085:Microfluidics; D009068:Movement; D012623:Seawater
chemical_list: D004337:Drug Carriers