About Biosensors

Biosensors are defined as analytical devices incorporating a biological material (eg. tissue, microorganisms, organelles, cell receptors, enzymes, antibodies, nucleic acids etc), a biologically derived material or biomimic intimately associated with or integrated within a physiochemical transducer or transducing microsystem, which may be optical, electrochemical, thermometric, piezoelectric, magnetic or micromechanical.

Biosensors usually yield a digital electronic signal which is proportional to the concentration of a specific analyte or group of analytes. While the signal may in principle be continuous, devices can be configured to yield single measurements to meet specific market requirements.

Biosensors have been applied to a wide variety of analytical problems in medicine, the environment, food, process industries, security and defence.

Also encompassed within the Congress is the emerging field of bioelectronics, which seeks to exploit biology in conjunction with electronics in a wider context encompassing, for example, biomaterials for information processing, information storage, fuel cells and actuators. A key aspect is the interface between biological materials and electronics.

  
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