Biosensor (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Barbara

Biosensor

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By mimicking natural sensors, Vallée-Bélisle, Ricci and Plaxco have created biosensors that are highly precise (ideal for monitoring the concentration of highly toxic drugs used to treat many cancers) or that can detect a very large change in target concentrations (ideal to monitor HIV virus progression). The researchers believe that these strategies can be applied to a wide range of biosensors, which may significantly impact efforts to build better point-of-care biosensors for the detection of disease biomarkers.

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