Commercial Biosensors: Applications to Clinical, Bioprocess, and Environmental Samples

ISBN-13: 9780471585053 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 304 str.

Ramsay; Graham Ramsay; Graham Ramsey

Opis

Biosensors are a method of rapid, infield detection of toxins such as pesticides and hazardous wastes. They are becoming an increasingly popular analytical tool among analytical chemists involved with environmental, clinical and food analysis. This text aims to provide the reader with a thorough understanding of biosensors, with an emphasis on their sensitivity, application, accuracy, and analytical protocols.

Spis treści

APPLICATIONS TO CLINICAL SAMPLES.

Biosensors for Personal Diabetes Management (T. Henning & D. Cunningham).

Microfabricated Sensors and the Commercial Development of the i–Stat Point–of–Care System (G. Davis).

Noninvasive Biosensors in Clinical Analysis (G. Palleschi, et al.).

Surface Plasmon Resonance (R. Earp & R. Dessy).

Biosensors Based on Evanescent Waves (D. Purvis, et al.).

APPLICATIONS TO BIOPROCESS SAMPLES.

Applications of Biosensor–Based Instruments to the Bioprocess Industry (J. Woodward & R. Spokane).

APPLICATIONS TO ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES.

Application of Biosensors to Environmental Samples (K. Riedel).

Index.

O autorze

GRAHAM RAMSAY, PhD, is a senior chemist at Wolpert Polymers, Inc. A graduate of Cranfield University′s Institute of BioScience and Technology, he has developed a range of biosensor and chemical sensor–based instrumentation for viable cell quantitation, neurotoxins, and environmental contaminants.

Blurb

Commercial Biosensors offers professionals an in–depth look at some of the most significant applications of commercially available biosensor–based instrumentation in the medical, bioprocess, and environmental fields. Featuring contributions by an international team of scientists, the book provides readers with an unparalleled opportunity to see how their colleagues around the world are using these powerful new tools.

Commercial Biosensors is divided into three sections. In the first, which is devoted to applications of biosensors to clinical samples, the authors explore how biosensors are currently being used for in–home diabetes monitoring, point–of–care diagnostics, and noninvasive sensing, and biomedical research. The second section deals with cutting–edge applications of biosensors in bioprocess control– for example, measuring glucose, sucrose, glutamate, or choline concentrations during food and beverage production and measuring ethanol concentration during beer fermentation. In the final section, readers learn about the use of biological oxygen demand (BOD) biosensors for monitoring environmental samples.

This book is an indispensable addition to the reference libraries of biosensor technologists, physicians, analytical chemists, environmental engineers, pesticide chemists, clinical chemists, and food chemists.

An in–depth exploration of state–of–the–art commercial biosensor technology and its aplications.

Commercial biosensor technology has taken off over the past few years, and the number of applications is growing rapidly. This book offers professionals a timely and authoritative look at some of the most important of these applications. Over the course of seven chapters authored by leading international experts, readers learn all about the latest in:
∗ Biosensors and diabetes management
∗ Microfabricated biosensors and point–of–care diagnostics systems
∗ Noninvasive biosensors in clinical analysis
∗ Surface plasmon resonance and evanescent wave biosensors
∗ Biosensor–based instruments in food and beverage production
∗ Biosensors in environmental sampling

Commercial Biosensors is required reading for all professionals who would like to take advantage of the enormous potential of one of today′s most important new commercial technologies.