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Editorial

Spermbots: potential impact for drug delivery and assisted reproductive technologies

Veronika MagdanzInstitute for Integrative Nanosciences, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstraße 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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Oliver G SchmidtProfessor,Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstraße 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany+49 351 4659 810; +49 351 4659 782; [email protected];Chemnitz University of Technology, Material Systems for Nanoelectronics, Reichenhainer Str. 70, Chemnitz 09107, Germany;Dresden University of Technology, Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, 01187 Dresden, Germany
Pages 1125-1129 | Published online: 31 May 2014

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