Assembling Amperometric Biosensors for Clinical Diagnostics

Amperometric Biosensors for Lactate, Alcohols and Glycerol Assays in Clinical Diagnostics

Electrochemical miRNA Biosensors: The Benefits of Nanotechnology

The importance of nanotechnology in medical technologies, especially biomedical diagnostics, is indubitable. By taking advantages of nanomaterials, many medical diagnostics methods have been developed so far, including electrochemical nanobiosensors. They have been used for quantification of different clinical biomarkers for detecting, screening, or follow up a disease. microRNAs (miRNAs) are o...

Amperometric test strips for point of care biosensors: an overview

Amperometric biosensor strips are a fast and inexpensive way to measure blood metabolites. Although many different compounds can be measured amperometrically by exploiting the same measuring algorithms, the blood glucose monitoring still accounts for the 85% of the biosensors market. The competition between the main industry players promoted the development of sophisticated glucose sensors capa...

Combining Electrochemical Sensors with Miniaturized Sample Preparation for Rapid Detection in Clinical Samples

Clinical analyses benefit world-wide from rapid and reliable diagnostics tests. New tests are sought with greatest demand not only for new analytes, but also to reduce costs, complexity and lengthy analysis times of current techniques. Among the myriad of possibilities available today to develop new test systems, amperometric biosensors are prominent players-best represented by the ubiquitous a...

Biosensors Fabricated through Electrostatic Assembly of Enzymes/Polyelectrolyte Hybrid Layers on Carbon Nanotubes

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have emerged as new class of nanomaterials that is receiving considerable interest because of their unique structure, mechanical, and electronic properties. One promising application of CNTs is to fabricate highly sensitive chemo/biosensors. For construction of these CNT-based sensors, the CNTs first have to be modified with some molecules specific to the interests. Gene...