The cover feature image illustrates a newly reported biosensor intended to reliably monitor patient use and compliance of benzodiazepines. Akin the epidemic rise in abuse this drug class, artist has placed literally under magnifying glass hoping draw attention an improved unique DNA aptamer-based detection method for testing urine. art was designed by Marc Polaske inspired noir detective graphi...

A phage-based magnetoelastic (ME) biosensor method for the detection of Salmonella Typhimurium was compared with a TaqMan-based quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) method on cantaloupes. The selectivity of a qPCR primer set was investigated and different DNA extraction methods were compared. The limits of detection (LOD) of both detection methods were determined by serial inoculation of S. Typhim...