Nano/micromotors for diagnosis and therapy of cancer and infectious diseases.

Micromotors are man-made nano/microscale devices capable to transform energy into mechanical motion. The accessibility and force offered by micromotors hold great promise to solve complex biomedical challenges. This review highlights current progress and prospects in the use of nano and micromotors for diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases and cancer. Motion-based sensing and fluorescence switching detection strategies along with therapeutic approaches based on direct cell capture; killing by direct contact or specific drug delivery to the affected site, will be comprehensevely covered. Future challenges to translate the potential of nano/micromotors into practical applications will be described in the conclusions.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Chemistry

• Publication date

  2020-02-21

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Chemistry, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/chem.201903475PMID 31682040
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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