(Nanowerk News) Research and industry are increasingly exploiting the potential of aptamers. As well as their application in research, medical diagnosis and treatment, aptamers are also interesting as ...

A new review highlights major advances in a promising class of diagnostic tools known as aptamer-based biosensors, which ...

Dublin, Oct. 19, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Biosensors - A Global Market Overview" report has been added to Research and Markets' offering. Global Biosensors market is expected to record a robust ...

Electrochemical biosensors are a class of biosensors that function using an electrochemical transducer. They can detect biological materials such as enzymes, whole cells, specific ligands, and tissues ...

A biosensor is a device that has the potential to detect a particular substance or analyte with high specificity. Examples of such analytes include glucose, lactate, glutamate and glutamine. Most ...

The biosensor uses "capture probes" called aptamers, which are single strands of DNA that bind to virus proteins, flagging them. The team's big challenge was finding a way to get these aptamers to ...