Tiny Medicine: Nanomaterial-Based Biosensors
Tiny medicine refers to the development of small easy to use devices that can help in the early diagnosis and treatment of disease. Early diagnosis is the key to successfully treating many diseases. Nanomaterial-based biosensors utilize the unique properties of biological and physical nanomaterials...
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| author | Nelson Watts Mark J. Schulz Chong H. Ahn Laura Conforti Dogyoon Kim Joon-Sub Shim Zhongyun Dong Amit Bhattacharya Yeo-Heung Yun Edward Eteshola |
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| description | Tiny medicine refers to the development of small easy to use devices that can help in the early diagnosis and treatment of disease. Early diagnosis is the key to successfully treating many diseases. Nanomaterial-based biosensors utilize the unique properties of biological and physical nanomaterials to recognize a target molecule and effect transduction of an electronic signal. In general, the advantages of nanomaterial-based biosensors are fast response, small size, high sensitivity, and portability compared to existing large electrodes and sensors. Systems integration is the core technology that enables tiny medicine. Integration of nanomaterials, microfluidics, automatic samplers, and transduction devices on a single chip provides many advantages for point of care devices such as biosensors. Biosensors are also being used as new analytical tools to study medicine. Thus this paper reviews how nanomaterials can be used to build biosensors and how these biosensors can help now and in the future to detect disease and monitor therapies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d2b93baf0ca0437a8a18af2916f56b9c2022-12-22T04:22:25ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202009-11-019119275929910.3390/s91109275Tiny Medicine: Nanomaterial-Based BiosensorsNelson WattsMark J. SchulzChong H. AhnLaura ConfortiDogyoon KimJoon-Sub ShimZhongyun DongAmit BhattacharyaYeo-Heung YunEdward EtesholaTiny medicine refers to the development of small easy to use devices that can help in the early diagnosis and treatment of disease. Early diagnosis is the key to successfully treating many diseases. Nanomaterial-based biosensors utilize the unique properties of biological and physical nanomaterials to recognize a target molecule and effect transduction of an electronic signal. In general, the advantages of nanomaterial-based biosensors are fast response, small size, high sensitivity, and portability compared to existing large electrodes and sensors. Systems integration is the core technology that enables tiny medicine. Integration of nanomaterials, microfluidics, automatic samplers, and transduction devices on a single chip provides many advantages for point of care devices such as biosensors. Biosensors are also being used as new analytical tools to study medicine. Thus this paper reviews how nanomaterials can be used to build biosensors and how these biosensors can help now and in the future to detect disease and monitor therapies.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/9/11/9275/tiny medicinenanomaterialspoint of care |
| spellingShingle | Nelson Watts Mark J. Schulz Chong H. Ahn Laura Conforti Dogyoon Kim Joon-Sub Shim Zhongyun Dong Amit Bhattacharya Yeo-Heung Yun Edward Eteshola Tiny Medicine: Nanomaterial-Based Biosensors Sensors tiny medicine nanomaterials point of care |
| title | Tiny Medicine: Nanomaterial-Based Biosensors |
| title_full | Tiny Medicine: Nanomaterial-Based Biosensors |
| title_fullStr | Tiny Medicine: Nanomaterial-Based Biosensors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tiny Medicine: Nanomaterial-Based Biosensors |
| title_short | Tiny Medicine: Nanomaterial-Based Biosensors |
| title_sort | tiny medicine nanomaterial based biosensors |
| topic | tiny medicine nanomaterials point of care |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/9/11/9275/ |
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