Commercial Biosensors and Their Applications

Commercial Biosensors and Their Applications: Clinical, Food, and Beyond offers professionals an in-depth look at some of the most significant applications of commercially available biosensor-based instrumentation in the clinical, food quality control, bioprocess monitoring, and bio threat fields. Featuring contributions by an international team of scientists, this book provides readers with an unparalleled opportunity to see how their colleagues around the world are using these powerful tools. This book is an indispensable addition to the reference libraries of biosensor technologists, analytical chemists, clinical chemists, biochemists, physicians, medical doctors, engineers, and clinical biochemists.

The book discusses the need for portable, rapid, and smart biosensing devices and their use as cost-effective, in situ, real-time analytical tools in a variety of fields.

• Devotes several chapters to applications of biosensors to clinical samples, exploring how biosensors are currently used for in-home diabetes monitoring, point-of-care diagnostics, non-invasive sensing, and biomedical research
• Includes a section on food applications covering how biosensors can detect genetically modified organisms, toxins, allergens, hormones, microorganisms, species-specificity, pesticides, insecticides, and related components
• Discusses nanobiosensor and applications, including a chapter on nanotechnological approaches and materials in commercial biosensors

Students and researchers (both early stage and experts) in analytical chemistry and biomedical engineering or from the commercial sector interested in trends in biosensing devices; researchers and chemists in research centers, pharmaceutical companies, and universities working to develop new commercial biosensors

1. Introduction to commercial biosensors

Part 1: Clinical Applications
2. Personal blood glucose analysers
3. Applications to hormones, metabolites and others
4. Overview of commercial biosensors developed for diagnosis of cancers and other diseases
5. Commercial biosensors for pathogens
6. Paper-based devices
7. Non-invasive biosensors in clinical applications

Part 2: Food Applications
8. Commercial Biosensors for detection of food additives, contaminants, and pathogens
9. Bioassays and biosensors for food analysis: focus on allergens and food packaging

Part 3: Bioprocess Monitoring Applications
10. Bioprocess monitoring by biosensor based technologies

Part 4: Biothreat Applications
11. Biosensors commercial off-the-shelf in biological warfare attack

Part 5: Nanobiosensor Applications
12. Nanotechnological approaches and materials in commercial biosensors
13. Conclusion and future perspectives