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Overview
A cutting-edge collection of detailed, step-by-step techniques and prools for constructing, evaluating, and using affinity-based biosensors. Ideal for novices starting research in their field or experienced researchers wanting to use a biosensor for a specific analytical measurement, the methods detailed here allow biochemists, analytical chemists, microbiologists, and engineers to successfully apply biosensor technology to their specific problems. The techniques include the use of antibodies and membrane receptors to construct optical, thermal, acoustic, and electrochemically based biosensors. Additional techniques involve antibodies, receptors, nucleic acids, liposomes, and eukaryotic cells. A companion volume, Enzyme and Microbial Biosensors: Prools and Techniques, by Mulchandani & Rogers, concentrates on enzyme-biosensors.
The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Editorials
Howard H. Sky-Peck
This is an overview of the principles relevant to the design and operational features of affinity-based biosensors and related techniques. This volume provides a basic reference and starting point for investigators in academics and industry to begin or expand their biosensors research. It is aimed at a large and varied audience, including graduate students and postdoctoral and senior researchers interested in the field of biosensors. A variety of classical and emerging transduction technologies that have been interfaced with bioaffinity elements are described. This volume, although not an exhaustive treatise, provides a detailed, step-by-step description for a variety of affinity-based biosensor technologies that will allow the novice or the experienced investigator to expand into new areas of research most appropriate for their analytical needs. In addition, detailed protocols, special notes, and safety items have been included to provide details that may not normally appear in journal articles. This book is very useful for detailed methodologies and theories related to biosensors for use in analytical techniques. To the researcher or the technician, this volume, along with Volume 6, is a necessity for a full understanding of biosensor techniques.From The Critics
Reviewer:Howard H. Sky-Peck, MD, PhD, FRSM(Rush Medical College of Rush University)Description:This is an overview of the principles relevant to the design and operational features of affinity-based biosensors and related techniques.
Purpose:This volume provides a basic reference and starting point for investigators in academics and industry to begin or expand their biosensors research.
Audience:It is aimed at a large and varied audience, including graduate students and postdoctoral and senior researchers interested in the field of biosensors.
Features:A variety of classical and emerging transduction technologies that have been interfaced with bioaffinity elements are described. This volume, although not an exhaustive treatise, provides a detailed, step-by-step description for a variety of affinity-based biosensor technologies that will allow the novice or the experienced investigator to expand into new areas of research most appropriate for their analytical needs. In addition, detailed protocols, special notes, and safety items have been included to provide details that may not normally appear in journal articles.
Assessment:This book is very useful for detailed methodologies and theories related to biosensors for use in analytical techniques. To the researcher or the technician, this volume, along with Volume 6, is a necessity for a full understanding of biosensor techniques.
Booknews
Collects 15 articles on techniques and protocols for constructing, evaluating, and using affinity biosensors. Representative topics include immunosensors based on piezoelectric crystal device, receptor biosensors based on optical detection, biosensors based on DNA intercalation using light polarization, and isolated receptor biosensors based on bilayer lipid membranes. Designed for researchers wanting to use an affinity biosensor for a specific analytical measurement and for novices beginning research in their field. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.3 Stars from Doody