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Mariana Medina-Sánchez
Researcher at Leibniz Association
Publications - 78
Citations - 3942
Mariana Medina-Sánchez is an academic researcher from Leibniz Association. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sperm & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 68 publications receiving 2527 citations. Previous affiliations of Mariana Medina-Sánchez include Autonomous University of Barcelona & Spanish National Research Council.
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Cellular Cargo Delivery: Toward Assisted Fertilization by Sperm-Carrying Micromotors
TL;DR: In this article, a novel type of hybrid micromotor, where customized microhelices serve as motors for transporting sperm cells with motion deficiencies to help them carry out their natural function, is presented.
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Sperm-Hybrid Micromotor for Targeted Drug Delivery
Haifeng Xu,Mariana Medina-Sánchez,Veronika Magdanz,Lukas Schwarz,Franziska Hebenstreit,Oliver G. Schmidt +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a sperm-driven micromotor is presented as a targeted drug delivery system, which is appealing to potentially treat diseases in the female reproductive tract, and is demonstrated to be an efficient drug delivery vehicle by first loading a motile sperm cell with an anticancer drug (doxorubicin hydrochloride), guiding it magnetically, to an in vitro cultured tumor spheroid, and finally freeing the sperm cell to deliver the drug locally.
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Medical microbots need better imaging and control
TL;DR: Mariana Medina-Sanchez and Oliver G. Schmidt set priorities for more realistic tests of tiny machines that could be used to diagnose and treat conditions as mentioned in this paper, but they did not specify the types of tests to be conducted.
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Medibots: Dual-Action Biogenic Microdaggers for Single-Cell Surgery and Drug Release
TL;DR: These multi-action plant-derived biocompatible "medibots" can play a pivotal role in understanding micromotor interactions at the cellular level, aiming toward the destruction of harmful cells in living systems.
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Engineering microrobots for targeted cancer therapies from a medical perspective
TL;DR: How different microrobots, ranging from tailor-made motile bacteria and tiny bubble-propelled microengines to hybrid spermbots, can be engineered to integrate sophisticated features optimised for precision-targeting of a wide range of cancers are highlighted.