magnetotactic bacteria
Bacteria that synthesize internal magnetic crystals and orient along magnetic fields, making them candidates for externally steered biomedical robots.
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Nanorobotic drug delivery using flagellated bacteria by team from Polytechnique Montréal
In August 2016, a team led by Sylvain Martel at Polytechnique Montréal published research in Nature Nanotechnology demonstrating that swarms of approximately 100 million flagellated bacteria, each carrying a magnetosome acting as a compass, could transport and release an anticancer drug payload preferentially within the hypoxic regions of a tumour in a mouse model.