News tagged with biosensors and bioelectronics
Two scientific articles on graphene-based sensors prove popular in the research community
When it comes to checking for trace levels of chemicals that could be the early warning signs of disease or chemical exposure, doctors and patients want to use as small of blood samples as possible. This drive for small samples ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 28, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
Nanotech coatings produce 20 times more electricity from sewage
Engineers at Oregon State University have made a significant advance toward producing electricity from sewage, by the use of new coatings on the anodes of microbial electrochemical cells that increased the electricity production ...
Jul 21, 2010 |
4.8 / 5 (9) |
0
|
Implantable Device Offers Continuous Cancer Monitoring
(PhysOrg.com) -- Surgical removal of a tissue sample is now the standard for diagnosing cancer. Such procedures, known as biopsies, are accurate but offer only a snapshot of the tumor at a single moment in time.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 21, 2009 |
5 / 5 (3) |
1
Search results for biosensors and bioelectronics
New technology sheds light on viruses
(Phys.org) -- Diagnostic tests that rapidly detect disease-causing viruses in animals and humans are being developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists using a new technology called "surface-enhanced ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 10, 2012 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
Study brings diagnostics for viruses a step closer to reality
Scientists have developed a technique which could form the basis of a non-invasive diagnostic for Adenovirus – the virus responsible for a large number of common illnesses.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Feb 14, 2012 |
4.6 / 5 (5) |
0
|
S-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g electrical conductance to the limit
Individual molecules have been used to create electrical components like resistors, transistors and diodes, that mimic the properties of familiar semiconductors. But according to Nongjian (NJ) Tao, a researcher ...
Dec 05, 2011 |
4.5 / 5 (4) |
1
|
Fighting Parkinson's with carbon nanoparticles
One of the problems affecting the human nervous system is dopamine deficiency. But testing of dopamine concentration is costly and requires sophisticated equipment not available in a doctor's office. Enter ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 29, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
Research team discovers new conducting properties of bacteria-produced wires
The discovery of a fundamental, previously unknown property of microbial nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens that allows electron transport across long distances could revolutionize nanotechnology ...
Aug 07, 2011 |
4.6 / 5 (9) |
4
|
Sensors to detect explosives, monitor food being developed at UH
Monitoring everything from explosives to tainted milk, materials for use in creating sensors for detection devices have been developed by a University of Houston (UH) chemist and his team. The findings recently ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jan 21, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
See how they grow: Monitoring single bacteria without a microscope
(PhysOrg.com) -- With an invention that can be made from some of the same parts used in CD players, University of Michigan researchers have developed a way to measure the growth and drug susceptibility of ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jan 17, 2011 |
4.9 / 5 (8) |
0
|
Visualizing viruses: new research pinpoints tiny invaders
In the war against infectious disease, identifying the culprit is half the battle. Now, research professor Shaopeng Wang and his colleagues from the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, describe a new method for ...
Aug 24, 2010 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
|
New imaging technology brings trace chemicals into focus (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Arizona State Univeristy scientist N.J. Tao and his colleagues at the Biodesign Institute have hit on a new, versatile method to significantly improve the detection of trace chemicals important ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 11, 2010 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
|
Researchers Develop New Geobacter Microbe Strain to Produce More Electricity, Open New Applications
(PhysOrg.com) -- In their most recent experiments with Geobacter, the sediment-loving microbe whose hairlike filaments help it to produce electric current from mud and wastewater, Derek Lovley and colleagues at the ...
Jul 28, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (8) |
1
List of search results for biosensors and bioelectronics
