In this paper, a biosensor based on a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) was used for the evaluation of the total antioxidant capacity (TAC) of flavours and flavoured waters. This biosensor was constructed by immobilising purine bases, guanine and adenine, on a GCE. Square wave voltammetry (SWV) was selected for the development of this methodology. Damage caused by the reactive oxygen species (ROS),...

The present research describes a simple method for the identification of the gender of arowana fish (Scleropages formosus). The DNA biosensor was able to detect specific DNA sequence at extremely low level down to atto M regimes. An electrochemical DNA biosensor based on acrylic microsphere-gold nanoparticle (AcMP-AuNP) hybrid composite was fabricated. Hydrophobic poly(n-butylacrylate-N-acrylox...

This study describes two polyphenols, caffeic acid (CA) and (+)-catechin, as well their antioxidant effects, detected by cyclic voltammetry (CV) using an electrochemical deoxyribonucleic (DNA)-based biosensor in sage tea. Square-wave (SWV) was applied to investigate CA, one of the derivatives phenolic acids, a representative flavonoids, voltammograms (SWVs) CA showed peak (0.197 V) presence ano...

This study presents a novel method for DNA detection with multi-layer AuNPs to enhance overall detection sensitivity. This essay achieves not only an innovative radio-frequency biosensor but also a critical signal amplification methodology. Results show that bandwidth change for multi-layer AuNP with hybridization of DNA exceeds that for the double-layer AuNP up to 0.5 GHz. Furthermore, the dev...

An electrochemical biosensor for the detection of genetically modified food components is presented. The biosensor was based on 21-mer single-stranded oligonucleotide (ssDNA probe) specific to either 35S promoter or nos terminator, which are frequently present in transgenic DNA cassettes. ssDNA probe was covalently attached by 5'-phosphate end to amino group of cysteamine self-assembled monolay...

An E. coli SOS-EGFP biosensor which expresses enhanced green fluorescent protein as a reporter protein under the control of recA gene promoter in SOS response was constructed for detection of DNA damage and evaluation of DNA damaging chemicals. The chemicals that may cause substantial DNA damage will trigger SOS response in the constructed bacterial biosensor, and then the reporter egfp gene un...

A novel signal enhanced liquid crystal biosensor based on using AuNPs for highly sensitive DNA detection has been developed. This biosensor not only significantly decreases the detection limit, but also offers a simple detection process and shows a good selectivity to distinguish perfectly matched target DNA from two-base mismatched DNA.

An enzyme-mediated universal fluorescent biosensor template for rapid detection of pathogens was developed based on the strategy a three-dimensional (3D) DNA walker and catalyzed hairpin assembly (CHA) reaction.

Electrochemical DNA biosensors are used widely due to its sensitivity, accessibility and accuracy. This electrochemical era in DNA biosensors took almost three decades for its development and application. Purine bases in the DNA namely guanine and adenine oxidizes at the working electrode during application of a positive potential. This property of DNA has been utilized in electrochemical DNA b...