“…Therefore, both MTBs and magnetosomes are enjoying celebrity status due to their multi-dimensional applications including recovery and detection of biological entities (Amemiya et al, 2005), in cellular homeostasis disorder (Iskusnykh & Popova, 2010), as a contrast dye in MRI (Benoit et al, 2009), hyperthermia therapy for cancer (Liu et al, 2012), in sensitive immunoassays, high-performance DNA/mRNA recovery (Sode et al, 1993;Yoza et al, 2002), DNA discrimination analysis , drug delivery (Matsunaga et al, 1997), as carriers for enzymes (Matsunaga & Kamiya, 1987), nucleic acids (Takeyama et al, 1995) antibodies Nakamura & Matsunaga, 1993), as biosensors (Fouladi et al, 2007b), non-destructive domain analysis of soft magnetic materials (Harasko et al, 1995), to locate magnetic poles on meteoritic magnetic grains (Funaki et al, 1989), waste treatment and removal of heavy metals and radionucleotides from wastewater (Bahaj et al, 1998;Wu et al, 2006a) and in nanorobotics (Martel, 2006a). In addition, these might be tools for searching extra-terrestrial life (McKay et al, 1996).…”