Health and Environmental Applications of Biosensing Technologies
Clinical and Allied Health Science Perspective
- 1st Edition - October 13, 2023
- Editors: Murugan Veerapandian, James Joseph, Mohana Marimuthu
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 0 3 9 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 0 4 0 - 7
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Request a sales quoteWith emerging biological threats from pathogenic microorganisms and increasing environmental pollutants, it is essential to ensure the safety needs of individuals and the ecosystem are met. Modern materials science and engineering has evolved over the years to better develop devices to test abnormalities. Affordability, accessibility, and reliability of any analytical system is the prime necessity for a modern diagnostic application.
Health and Environmental Applications of Biosensing Technologies: Clinical and Allied Health Science Perspective presents a detailed overview on biosensor design systems and optimal fabrication technologies to create a greater impact on various industries and help organizations break existing performance tradeoffs to deploy biosensor technologies across inter/transdisciplinary businesses. The book presents novel and emerging trends in biosensor design and healthcare applications focused on API detection, communicable/non-communicable disease diagnosis, food quality monitoring, agro-environmental analysis, bio-defense, and industrial pollutant sensing. In addition, wearable biosensors, commercial products, and safety regulations for biosensing technologies are summarized.
- Provides a fundamental understanding on biosensor system design, biomarkers for communicable/non-communicable diseases, and bioreceptor immobilization techniques
- Integrates information covering biosensing technologies for clinical diagnosis, API detection, industrial/environmental monitoring, agro-livestock healthcare, and disease control
- Provides information on principles, advanced trends, and approaches for wearable biosensors
- Covers market trends with biosensing technologies/products and their commercial challenges
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Chapter 1. Fundamentals of a biosensor system
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Electrochemical biosensors
- 1.3 Evolution in electrochemical biosensors
- 1.4 Electroanalytical techniques as a tool for monitoring the biosensor platform
- 1.5 Artificial intelligence-based signal processing
- 1.6 Basic parameters involved in electrochemical biosensors
- 1.7 Categories of electrochemical biosensors
- 1.8 Strategies for the construction of an electrochemical biosensor system
- 1.9 Challenges and opportunities in electrochemical biosensor research
- References
- Chapter 2. Processes in biosensor design, development, and validation parameters
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Working principle of biosensors
- 2.3 Biosensor design
- 2.4 Consideration for biosensor design
- 2.5 Development of biosensors
- 2.6 Validation parameters
- 2.7 Summary and future perspectives
- References
- Chapter 3. Types of optoelectrochemical active materials for biosensor design
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Optoelectrochemical active materials
- 3.3 Salient perspectives of optoelectrochemical active materials
- 3.4 Optoelectrochemical materials and biosensor interactions
- 3.5 Limitations of material interactions with biosensors
- 3.6 Outlooks
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 4. Bioreceptors and immobilization techniques for transducing communicable diseases
- Abstract
- 4.1 Communicable diseases
- 4.2 Biosensors
- 4.3 Immobilization techniques
- 4.4 Practical challenges in biosensor construction
- 4.5 Summary and future perspectives
- References
- Chapter 5. Emerging biomarkers for early diagnosis of noncommunicable diseases
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Major noncommunicable diseases
- 5.3 Biomarkers
- 5.4 Advantages of employing multivariate biomarkers
- 5.5 Sensing platforms for point-of-care diagnostics
- 5.6 Conclusion and future prospects
- Abbreviation
- References
- Chapter 6. Biosensors in industrial waste management as sensing approaches for personal and societal healthcare
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Conclusion and future prospects
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 7. Biosensor platform for testing active pharmaceutical ingredients
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Electrochemical biosensing of active pharmaceutical ingredients
- 7.3 Conclusion and future prospective
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 8. Microfluidics-integrated biosensor platform for modern clinical analysis
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Microfluidic biosensor for pathogen detection
- 8.3 Organ-on-a-chip biosensing platforms
- 8.4 Outlook and future perspectives
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 9. Implantable biosensor platforms for animal model bioassays
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Animal models for bioassays
- 9.3 Implication of implantable biosensors in diseases
- 9.4 Future perspectives
- References
- Chapter 10. Wearable biosensor platform: design and healthcare commercial values
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Sweat as a biofluid
- 10.3 Interstitial fluid as a biofluid
- 10.4 Saliva as a biofluid
- 10.5 Tear as a biofluid
- 10.6 Challenges and future prospects
- 10.7 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 11. Sensor platform for food quality monitoring: healthcare perspective
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Electrochemical sensors
- 11.3 Immunoassay-based sensors
- 11.4 Colorimetric sensors
- 11.5 Nonconventional strategies
- 11.6 Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 12. Sensing technologies for agroenvironment toward sustainable human healthcare
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Methods for determination of pesticides in agro and environmental samples
- 12.3 Summary and future perspectives
- Acknowledgement
- References
- Chapter 13. Biosensor for biothreat detection and defense application
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction
- Reference
- Chapter 14. Sweat-based screening of biomarkers using an enzymatic bioelectrocatalytic approach
- Abstract
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Sweat analytes: an ideal alternative source for healthcare monitoring
- 14.3 Advantages of enzyme-related factors at the electrode interface
- 14.4 Optimal electrode design for facile electron transfer reaction
- 14.5 Analysis of enzyme–electrode interface using electrochemical techniques
- 14.6 Wearable electrodes and self-powered implantable devices
- 14.7 Conclusions and future perspectives
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 15. Organic electrochemical transistor-based advanced biosensor for clinical diagnosis
- Abstract
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Device physics of OECTs
- 15.3 OECTs in biosensing application
- 15.4 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 16. Role of miRNAs as biomarkers for early diagnosis of cancer
- Abstract
- 16.1 miRNA: background
- 16.2 miRNA biogenesis
- 16.3 miRNAs as a biomarker
- 16.4 miRNAs as biomarkers of early cancer development
- 16.5 miRNA expression associated with the emergence of breast cancer
- 16.6 miRNA expression associated with the emergence of cervical cancer
- 16.7 miRNA expression associated with the emergence of prostate cancer
- 16.8 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 17. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering in biosensing technologies
- Abstract
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 Surface-enhanced Raman scattering
- 17.3 Surface-enhanced Raman scattering-based biosensors
- 17.4 Current technology challenges and future potentials
- 17.5 Summary
- References
- Chapter 18. Emerging (bio)sensor technologies for monitoring vital markers of military, mining, and defense healthcare
- Abstract
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 Biological warfare agents
- 18.3 Chemical warfare agents
- 18.4 Sensors for soldier health monitoring
- 18.5 Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 19. R&D players in biosensor research: key products and applications
- Abstract
- 19.1 Introduction
- 19.2 Why printed electrodes are a hot topic?
- 19.3 Microfluidics-integrated sensor platform
- 19.4 Outlook
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 20. Commercialization and safety aspects of biosensing technologies
- Abstract
- 20.1 Introduction
- 20.2 Biocompatibility of biosensors
- 20.3 Immune response
- 20.4 Emerging biosensing technologies
- 20.5 Internet of Things in healthcare
- 20.6 Machine learning in healthcare
- 20.7 Opportunities in machine learning technology for the electrochemical (bio)sensor
- 20.8 Clinical data and its implementation in device development
- 20.9 Summary
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 478
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 13, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443190391
- eBook ISBN: 9780443190407
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