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Sperm Cell Biohybrid Microrobots

Sept. 2025

Altmetric show the recent publication on sperm cell biohybrid microrobots has received attention from over 30 news outlets. Click the links for the news articles.

Big Ideas at μScale Podcast

June 10, 2025

Dr. Veronika Magdanz and Noah Franco were featured on three episodes, which can be found on Spotify Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and Youtube here.

Connecting Droplet Adhesion with Sperm Kinematics: A New Paradigm in Sperm Quality Monitoring

May 28, 2025

The Scientific American‘s article and commentary on Dr. Veronika Magdanz’s newest paper, “Connecting Droplet Adhesion with Sperm Kinematics: A New Paradigm in Sperm Quality Monitoring”, with coauthors Sudip Shyam, Sushanta Mitra, and Sirshendu Misra

The Vox Intellectus Podcast

Nov. 29, 2024

Dr. Veronika Magdanz: Microrobots for Medical Applications

A look INSYDE

Dec. 11, 2023

The Medical Microrobotics lab at University of Waterloo

News on IRONSperm

July 2020

Our Science Advances Article highlighted in Nature middle east and Chemistry world!

TU Dresden News on recent publication

Nov. 28, 2019

Press release about our recent PlosOne article.

TU Dresden News

Feb. 13, 2018

Press release of the TU Dresden about my past investigations at the IIN and future planned investigations for the Open Topic project:

https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/newsportal/news/mikroroboter-aus-sperma

Further articles in response to that:

https://www.mdr.de/wissen/mikroroboter-sperma-100.html

https://medizin-aspekte.de/99094-mikroroboter-aus-sperma/

As Audio:

https://www.mdr.de/mediathek/radio/mdr-aktuell/index.html#