of its kind, and it is very useful if you need to load 1000′s of cells inside cages in matter of seconds. This technology is part of the “Cell Clinics” project (PI: Elisabeth Smela). The cells used are yeast cells. See the article entitled “Parasitic Trap Cancellation Using Multiple Frequency Dielectrophoresis, Demonstrated by Loading Cells into Cages”, upcomming in the journal Lab on a Chip. … MEMS cell loading dielectrophoresis DEP MFDEP cage parasitic trap microelectromechanical systems …

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scratch drive actuator. These two components are fabricated monolithically from the same sheet of conductive polysilicon, and receive a common power and control signal through a capacitive coupling with an underlying electrical grid. More information can be found at: BR Donald, C. Levey, C. McGray, I, Paprotny, and D. Rus. “An Untethered, Electrostatic, Globally-Controllable MEMS Micro-Robot” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2006; 15(1):1-15. … micro-robot mems mems-robot scratch …