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Life-Machine Fusion Devices

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The fusion of microdevices and biological cells has become a noteworthy trend in the field of microfluidics, or lab-on-a-chip, because it exploits the capability of their scale to accommodate various cell sizes.

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  1. Laboratory for Integrated Biodevice, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Riken, Tokyo, Japan

    Yo Tanaka

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  1. School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Koichi Suzumori

  2. RIKEN Thin-Film Device Laboratory, Wako, Saitama, Japan

    Kenjiro Fukuda

  3. Graduate School of Science and Technology, Meiji University, Kanagawa, Japan

    Ryuma Niiyama

  4. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Kohei Nakajima

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Tanaka, Y. (2023). Life-Machine Fusion Devices. In: Suzumori, K., Fukuda, K., Niiyama, R., Nakajima, K. (eds) The Science of Soft Robots. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5174-9_6

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