Research on new sensing concepts has opened the door to a wide variety of microsystems for clinical applications. Such devices are extremely useful for delivering diagnostic information in a fast, simple, and low cost fashion. This book is one of the first to focus on the use of nanotechnology in diagnostics. Designed as a broad survey of the field, this book combines contributions by international experts from divergent fields of study ranging from single molecule diagnostics to cell based systems.
Biased Diffusion and Rectified Brownian Motion at the Nanoscale Driving Mobile Sensing Automata for the Early Diagnosis of Endogenous Diseases
Dario Narducci and Gianfranco Cerofolini
Biotechnology-Utilized Nanopore for Single-Molecule Investigation
Ji Wook Shim and Li-Qun Gu
Self-assembled Peptide and Protein Nanostructures in Diagnosis
Jaime Castillo-León, Yuri Belotti, and Winnie E. Svendsen
Electrochemical Sensor Systems for Medicine
V. V. Shumyantseva, E. V. Suprun, T. V. Bulko, Ya. M. Chalenko, and A. I. Archakov
Conductive Polymers in Medical Diagnostics
Johannes Daprà, Katrine Kiilerich-Pedersen, Nikolaj Ormstrup Christiansen, Claus Riber Poulsen, and Noemi Rozlosnik
Biosensors for Diagnostic Based on Olfactory Receptors
Marta Sanmartí, Patrizia Iavicoli and Josep Samitier
Nanomedicine Technologies for Cell-Based Drug Screening
Pravin K. Naoghare and Joon Myong Song
Emerging Nanotechnology for Efficient Capture of Circulating Tumor Cells
Xueli Liu, Li Chen and Shutao Wang
Detection of Bacterial Habits: Single Planktonic Cells and Assembled Biofilm
Akira Ishihama
Biography
Rozlosnik\, Noemi