Roadmap on Universal Photonic Biosensors for Real-Time Detection of Emerging Pathogens
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it abundantly clear that the state-of-the-art biosensors may not be adequate for providing a tool for rapid mass testing and population screening in response to newly emerging pathogens. The main limitations of the conventional techniques are their dependency on virus-...
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| author | Blevins, Morgan G. Fernandez-Galiana, Alvaro Hooper, Milo J. Boriskina, Svetlana V. |
| author_facet | Blevins, Morgan G. Fernandez-Galiana, Alvaro Hooper, Milo J. Boriskina, Svetlana V. |
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic has made it abundantly clear that the state-of-the-art biosensors may not be adequate for providing a tool for rapid mass testing and population screening in response to newly emerging pathogens. The main limitations of the conventional techniques are their dependency on virus-specific receptors and reagents that need to be custom-developed for each recently-emerged pathogen, the time required for this development as well as for sample preparation and detection, the need for biological amplification, which can increase false positive outcomes, and the cost and size of the necessary equipment. Thus, new platform technologies that can be readily modified as soon as new pathogens are detected, sequenced, and characterized are needed to enable rapid deployment and mass distribution of biosensors. This need can be addressed by the development of adaptive, multiplexed, and affordable sensing technologies that can avoid the conventional biological amplification step, make use of the optical and/or electrical signal amplification, and shorten both the preliminary development and the point-of-care testing time frames. We provide a comparative review of the existing and emergent photonic biosensing techniques by matching them to the above criteria and capabilities of preventing the spread of the next global pandemic. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1366942021-11-01T14:36:57Z Roadmap on Universal Photonic Biosensors for Real-Time Detection of Emerging Pathogens Blevins, Morgan G. Fernandez-Galiana, Alvaro Hooper, Milo J. Boriskina, Svetlana V. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it abundantly clear that the state-of-the-art biosensors may not be adequate for providing a tool for rapid mass testing and population screening in response to newly emerging pathogens. The main limitations of the conventional techniques are their dependency on virus-specific receptors and reagents that need to be custom-developed for each recently-emerged pathogen, the time required for this development as well as for sample preparation and detection, the need for biological amplification, which can increase false positive outcomes, and the cost and size of the necessary equipment. Thus, new platform technologies that can be readily modified as soon as new pathogens are detected, sequenced, and characterized are needed to enable rapid deployment and mass distribution of biosensors. This need can be addressed by the development of adaptive, multiplexed, and affordable sensing technologies that can avoid the conventional biological amplification step, make use of the optical and/or electrical signal amplification, and shorten both the preliminary development and the point-of-care testing time frames. We provide a comparative review of the existing and emergent photonic biosensing techniques by matching them to the above criteria and capabilities of preventing the spread of the next global pandemic. 2021-10-28T13:38:26Z 2021-10-28T13:38:26Z 2021-08-20 2021-08-26T13:28:04Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136694 Photonics 8 (8): 342 (2021) PUBLISHER_CC http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/photonics8080342 Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| spellingShingle | Blevins, Morgan G. Fernandez-Galiana, Alvaro Hooper, Milo J. Boriskina, Svetlana V. Roadmap on Universal Photonic Biosensors for Real-Time Detection of Emerging Pathogens |
| title | Roadmap on Universal Photonic Biosensors for Real-Time Detection of Emerging Pathogens |
| title_full | Roadmap on Universal Photonic Biosensors for Real-Time Detection of Emerging Pathogens |
| title_fullStr | Roadmap on Universal Photonic Biosensors for Real-Time Detection of Emerging Pathogens |
| title_full_unstemmed | Roadmap on Universal Photonic Biosensors for Real-Time Detection of Emerging Pathogens |
| title_short | Roadmap on Universal Photonic Biosensors for Real-Time Detection of Emerging Pathogens |
| title_sort | roadmap on universal photonic biosensors for real time detection of emerging pathogens |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136694 |
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