Biosensors Applied in Biological System

A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Biosensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 183

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School of Medicine, Boston University, 72 E Concord St., Boston, MA 02118, USA
Interests: cellular signaling pathway; GPCR; biosensor engineering; kinase siganling

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues

Biological systems are highly organized and precisely regulated, with a spatiotemporal aspect. A plethora of extracellular stimuli including heat, photons, hormones, and even virus particles trigger cellular responses, induce signaling transduction, and result in metabolism reprogramming and even disease development. Investigating cellular responses from several points of view provides opportunities for us to understand the mechanism of different biological processes and how they contribute to different biological systems. Biosensors are powerful tools for detecting, monitoring, and recording biological responses at different scales, from cells, tissues, and organisms to the whole biological system. By converting a biological response or metabolic products into a robust readout such as an electrical, fluorescent, or luminescent signal, biosensors provide insights into how a biological system works spatiotemporally. While numerous biosensors have been developed, new tools are still required for detecting and dissecting the transient cellular processes in different biological systems. Moreover, developing user-friendly biosensors with high accuracy and sensitivity that are compatible with different biological systems would significantly improve biological and pharmacological research.

This Special Issue will look at new biosensors for hard-to-detect cellular responses, any innovative biosensor with high accuracy and sensitivity to important disease-relevant targets, and biosensors with broad uses in different biological systems.

Dr. Jingyi Zhao
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • biosensor
  • fluorescent protein-based biosensor
  • biosensor for transient cellular processes
  • enzyme-based biosensor
  • optical biosensor
  • biosensor based on synthesized molecules

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