Bionanotechnology. Colloidal nanoparticles as advanced biological sensors.
Colloidal nanoparticle biosensors have received intense scientific attention and offer promising applications in both research and medicine. We review the state of the...
Optical readout of the intracellular environment using nanoparticle transducers.
There is rapid growth in the use of multi-functional nanoparticles as transducers to probe the intracellular environment. New designs of nanoparticles can provide quan...
Laser-scribed graphene presents an opportunity to print a new generation of disposable electrochemical sensors.
Graphene application within electrochemical sensing has been widely reported, but mainly as a composite, which adds summative effects to an underlying electrode. In th...
Design and analysis of a spectro-angular surface plasmon resonance biosensor operating in the visible spectrum.
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensing is one of the most widely used methods to implement biosensing due to its sensitivity and capacity for label-free detection. Wh...
Novel electrochemiluminescent materials for sensor applications.
Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) uses redox reactions to generate light at an electrode surface, and is gaining increasing attention for biosensor development due to its...
Electrochemical detection of glycan and protein epitopes of glycoproteins in serum.
Aberrant protein glycosylation is associated with a range of pathological conditions including cancer and possesses diagnostic importance. Translation of glycoprotein ...
Silver, zinc oxide and titanium dioxide nanoparticle ecotoxicity to bioluminescent Pseudomonas putida in laboratory medium and artificial wastewater.
Bacteria based ecotoxicology assessment of manufactured nanoparticles is largely restricted to Escherichia coli bioreporters in laboratory media. Here, toxicity effect...
Proteopathic tau seeding predicts tauopathy in vivo.
Transcellular propagation of protein aggregates, or proteopathic seeds, may drive the progression of neurodegenerative diseases in a prion-like manner. In tauopathies ...
Photonic detection and characterization of DNA using sapphire microspheres.
A microcavity-based deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) optical biosensor is demonstrated for the first time using synthetic sapphire for the optical cavity. Transmitted and e...
A rapid and sensitive detection of HBV DNA using a nanopore sensor.
Nanopore analysis has emerged as the simplest single-molecule technique. We combined DNA probes with a nanopore electrochemical sensor for the rapid and sensitive dete...
Quantification of DNA through a fluorescence biosensor based on click chemistry.
A simple, sensitive and selective fluorescence biosensor for determination of DNA using CuS particles based on click chemistry is reported. Biotin-modified capture DNA...
Enhanced sensitivity of surface plasmon resonance phase-interrogation biosensor by using oblique deposited silver nanorods.
Sensitivity of surface plasmon resonance phase-interrogation biosensor is demonstrated to be enhanced by oblique deposited silver nanorods. Silver nanorods are thermal...
Hybrid organic semiconductor lasers for bio-molecular sensing.
Bio-functionalised luminescent organic semiconductors are attractive for biophotonics because they can act as efficient laser materials while simultaneously interactin...
Biosensors for hepatitis B virus detection.
A biosensor is an analytical device used for the detection of analytes, which combines a biological component with a physicochemical detector. Recently, an increasing ...
Development of an online sulfur-oxidizing bacteria biosensor for the monitoring of water toxicity.
A toxicity monitoring system based on the metabolic properties of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria (SOB) in continuous and fed-batch modes has been applied for the detection ...
Dual-colored graphene quantum dots-labeled nanoprobes/graphene oxide: functional carbon materials for respective and simultaneous detection of DNA and thrombin.
Convenient and simultaneous detection of multiple biomarkers such as DNA and proteins with biocompatible materials and good analytical performance still remains a chal...
Immobilization of glucose oxidase on graphene and cobalt phthalocyanine composite and its application for the determination of glucose.
We described a simple and facile chemical reduction strategy for the preparation of graphene (GR)-cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) composite and explored it for the enzyma...
Zirconia-poly(propylene imine) dendrimer nanocomposite based electrochemical urea biosensor.
In this article we report a selective urea electrochemical biosensor based on electro-co-deposited zirconia-polypropylene imine dendrimer (ZrO2-PPI) nanocomposite modi...
An aptasensor for detection of potassium ions based on RecJ(f) exonuclease mediated signal amplification.
An electrochemical biosensor for potassium has been developed combining specific potassium-aptamer binding and RecJf exonuclease mediated signal amplification. General...
A novel high-throughput cell-based assay aimed at identifying inhibitors of DNA metabolism in bacteria.
Bacterial biosensor strains can be useful tools for the discovery and characterization of antibacterial compounds. A plasmid-based reporter vector containing a transcr...