Contents
1. Introduction
2. Architectural Highlights
a. Nanomaterials
i. Gold ii. Carbon
b. Detection Methods
1. Fluorescence
2. Surface Plasmon Resonance
3. Piezoelectricity
3. Applications
a. Glucose Concentrations
b. Alzhemier’s Disease
c. Escherichia coli (E.coli)
d. HIV viral load measurement
e. Cancer
4. Conclusion
Introduction
In recent years, the use of bionanosensors in medical diagnostics has seen a favorable rise in research due to a growing need for reliable, early-detection methods of diseases and viruses. Bionanosensors have proven their integration in smart-phone applications that further breach the boundaries between reliable, accurate, and readily-available tools for point-of-care diagnostics and treatment. Biosensors are
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In research for detecting a prostate specific antigen (PSA) for diagnosing prostate cancer, gold electrodes were used for a lab-on-a-chip-based biosensor device prototype as seen in Fig. 1 [6] [10]. The device shown is operated wirelessly using MiContTM software. [10]. Fig. 1b outlines the various internal components of the biosensor device as well as the LCD display for the end user. A schematic of the biochip is shown in Fig. 1c and the measurable size of the chip is displayed against a ruler in Fig. 1d. Figure 1 Fully integrated and automated MiSens biosensor device (A, B) and its biochip (C, D). Note. Image reprinted with permission from [10], Uludag Y, Narter F, Sağlam E, Köktürk G, Gök MY, Akgün M, Barut S, Budak S, An integrated lab-on-a-chip-based electrochemical biosensor for rapid and sensitive detection of cancer biomarkers, (2010), © Anal Bioanal Chem 408(27):7775–7783.
Gold nanoparticles provide the capability of stable molecular immobilization without affecting bioactivities. As a result, the use of gold electrodes has been used in the successful detection of the rfbe gene E.coli 0157:H7 [4].
Nanomaterials – Carbon
Carbon nanomaterials such as graphene and methylene have been utilized because of their ability to enhance electrochemical biosensor performance and increase conductivity and stability of prepared immunosensors [6]. An immunosensor was created by coupling graphene nanosheets and gold
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That growth is likely to continue, driven by changes in healthcare delivery which are aimed at delivering less costly care closer to the patient’s home. In the developing world there is the challenge of more effective care for infectious diseases and PoCT may play a much greater role here in the future. PoCT technologies can be dividing into two categories: the first is small handheld devices, providing qualitative or quantitative determination of an increasing range of analytes. The technologies here are glucose biosensor strips and lateral flow strips using immobilised antibodies to determine a range of parameters including cardiac markers and infectious pathogens. The second categories of devices are larger, often bench-top devices which are essentially laboratory instruments which have been reduced in both size and complexity. These include critical care analysers and, more recently, small haematology and immunology analysers.
The pGLO plasmid is engineered to express green fluorescent protein (GFP) in the presence of the sugar arabinose as well as the ampicillin resistance gene β-lactamase (bla) (Brown, 2011). Original E. coli HB101 do not have ampicillin resistance or the GFP gene allowing them to glow under UV light. In this experiment, we transformed E. coli HB101 with the pGLO plasmid by heat shock to make the bacterial cells competent, allowing the plasmid to enter the cell (Brown, 2011). The mixture of bacteria with pGLO plasmid were given recovery time after heat shock, then spread on LB/amp and LB/amp/ara agar plates. The bacteria mixture with no plasmid added were spread on LB and LB/amp agar plates and all four plates were incubated at 37°C for
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Sometimes compared to her hero Steve Jobs, Elizabeth Holmes is well known as one of the most successful and youngest female entrepreneurs in America. The company she is building and the work she is revolutionizing is fascinating. Her company, Theranos, is developing a hardware, called a nanotainer that can carry out the exact same blood tests as diagnostic-labs do, and actually in a much faster time of just a few minutes, with only a pinprick of blood instead of three to four tubes of blood. By doing so, she will be able to eliminate one major cause of avoiding blood tests requested by doctors for the 40-60% of patients in America- the fear of big needles.
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The sensor is smaller than a penny and can spot cancer cells much earlier. For example, a doctor would normally use an endoscope to find cancerous tissue that looks cancerous and then take a biopsy. However, cancer must be at a certain stage of development before it can be seen by the human eye. A single chip solution could drastically reduce the need for biopsies, but until the technology is further advanced, the extent of reduction is unclear. (12) Justin Marshall also brought his expertise to the project and agrees with Gruev that incorporating traditional color vision into the sensor would be the next challenge. They note that not being able to see the colors we see would be problem for doctors who may use the sensor, since visual cues are typically used to guide them through procedures. On the other hand, mantis shrimp gather information in terms of color and polarization by waving
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