Biosensors: An overview

✍ Scribed by Garry A. Rechnitz

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 536 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0887-8013
• DOI: 10.1002/jcla.1860010311

✦ Synopsis

Biotechnology and biomedicine require improved measurement devices for pur- poses of analysis, monitoring, and control, with specific applications in fermentation, antibody production, drug testing, and patient monitoring. Electrochemical biosensors provide a possible means of meeting such needs provided the capabilities of such sensors can be extended to a wider range of biornolecules and more complex matrices. Several recent initiatives sug- gest that some new approaches to the development of potentiometric and arnperometric biosensors may be effective for this purpose. Such initiatives for the development of novel biosensors require a synthesis of biological and analytical concepts. Possible strategies involve the use of chernoreceptor structures, immunoagents, and cellular materials from plant or animal sources.