CFD Modeling of Chamber Filling in a Micro-Biosensor for Protein Detection.

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the main causes of human death around the globe. The mortality rate for patients infected with active TB goes beyond 50% when not diag...

Staphylococcus carnosus: from starter culture to protein engineering platform.

In vivo gibberellin gradients visualized in rapidly elongating tissues.

The phytohormone gibberellin (GA) is a key regulator of plant growth and development. Although the upstream regulation and downstream responses to GA vary across cells...

10.1016/j.jtemb.2017.06.007

The aim of the present study was to determine the iron needs in different organs and tissues using 67Ga as a biosensor in males and females rats subjected to iron defi...

Signal-on electrochemical assay for label-free detection of TdT and BamHI activity based on grown DNA nanowire-templated copper nanoclusters.

Electrochemical methods allow fast and inexpensive analysis of enzymatic activity. Here, a simple and yet efficient "signal-on" electrochemical assay for sensitive, la...

iCELLigence real-time cell analysis system for examining the cytotoxicity of drugs to cancer cell lines.

The recently developed iCELLigence™ real-time cell analyzer (RTCA) can be used for the label-free real-time monitoring of cancer cell proliferation, viability, invasio...

Lighting up yeast cell factories by transcription factor-based biosensors.

Our ability to rewire cellular metabolism for the sustainable production of chemicals, fuels and therapeutics based on microbial cell factories has advanced rapidly du...

A metal-organic framework based PCR-free biosensor for the detection of gastric cancer associated microRNAs.

We report herein five sensing platforms for the detection of five gastric cancer associated microRNAs (miRNAs). The sensing platforms are hybrids formed from a water-s...

Graphene Quantum Dots Electrochemistry and Sensitive Electrocatalytic Glucose Sensor Development.

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs), derived from functionalized graphene precursors are graphene sheets a few nanometers in the lateral dimension having a several-layer thic...

Microbial Fuels Cell-Based Biosensor for Toxicity Detection: A Review.

With the unprecedented deterioration of environmental quality, rapid recognition of toxic compounds is paramount for performing in situ real-time monitoring. Although ...

Screening Criteria for Qualified Antibiotic Targets in Unmodified Gold Nanoparticles-Based Aptasensing.

In designing unmodified gold nanoparticles-based aptasensing (uGA) assays for antibiotics, we find that some antibiotics can adsorb directly on gold nanoparticles (GNP...

A highly sensitive electrochemical biosensor based on AuNP-modified gold electrodes for selective determination of serum levels of crosslaps.

This article explains a step-wise protocol to develop an electrochemical sensor to quantify serum levels of C-telopeptide (CTX) crosslinks also known as crosslaps in a...

Localized surface plasmon resonance-based abscisic acid biosensor using aptamer-functionalized gold nanoparticles.

Abscisic acid (ABA) plays an important role in abiotic stress response and physiological signal transduction resisting to the adverse environment. Therefore, it is ver...

Double Biocatalysis Signal Amplification Glucose Biosensor Based on Porous Graphene.

Controllable preparation of nanopores to promote the performance of electrochemical biosensing interfaces has become one of the researching frontiers in biosensing. A ...

Quantitative Detection of Trace Level Cloxacillin in Food Samples Using Magnetic Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Extraction and Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Nanopillars.

There is an increasing demand for rapid, sensitive, and low cost analytical methods to routinely screen antibiotic residues in food products. Conventional detection of...

Generation of an immortalized mesenchymal stem cell line producing a secreted biosensor protein for glucose monitoring.

Diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by high levels of blood glucose. Diabetic patients should normalize these levels in order to avoid short and long term clin...

High-Sensitive Electrochemiluminescence C-Peptide Biosensor via the Double Quenching of Dopamine to the Novel Ru(II)-Organic Complex with Dual Intramolecular Self-Catalysis.

Here, a novel Ru(II)-organic complex (Ru-PEI-ABEI) with high electrochemiluminescence (ECL) efficiency was proposed to construct a sensitive quenching-typed ECL biosen...

A novel biosensor based on intestinal 3D organoids for detecting the function of BCRP.

Breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP), a key drug efflux transporter, significantly affects the therapeutic efficacy of many drugs. Thus, screening specific BCRP inh...

Label-Free Electrochemical Sensing Platform for MicroRNA-21 Detection Using Thionine and Gold Nanoparticles Co-Functionalized MoS

Herein, we demonstrated a label-free and simple electrochemical sensing platform to detect microRNA-21 (miR-21) with high sensitivity by using MoS2 nanosheet functiona...

Construction of a Nano Biosensor for Cyanide Anion Detection and Its Application in Environmental and Biological Systems.

We have developed a Ag@Au core-shell nanoparticle (NP)/iridium(III) complex-based sensing platform for the sensitive luminescence "turn-on" sensing of cyanide ions, an...