Recent trends in biosensors

Due to specificity, portability, simplicity, high sensitivity, potential ability for real-time and on-site analysis coupled with the speed and low cost, biosensors have been projected to have applications in food analysis, environment control, clinical detection, drug and agriculture industries etc. Besides this, biosensors offer exciting opportunities for numerous decentralized clinical applications, ranging from emergency room screening, home self testing and alternative site testing, continuous and real-time in vivo monitoring. New generation of biosensors combining new bioreceptors with the ever-growing number of transducers is emerging. The present paper highlights some of the recent advances in the area of biosensors contributed by our laboratory.