Applications of Biosensors in Medicine, the Food Industry, and Disease Diagnosis

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 456

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School of Food and Bioengineering, Xihua University, Chengdu 610039, China
Interests: food safety; rapid detection; aptamers; nanozymes; fluorescence method

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Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, biosensors have attracted significant attention in the fields of analysis and diagnosis, as they offer several advantages, such as high sensitivity, specificity, rapid response, and low cost. Therefore, they are considered promising alternative tools in the rapid detection of analytes. Drugs, food contaminants, and diseases pose a serious threat to human health. Developing advanced techniques for the detection and control of these substance is an urgent challenge.

This Special Issue, entitled “Applications of Biosensors in Medicine, the Food Industry, and Disease Diagnosis”, will provide a platform for researchers to share developments in analysis and detection technology, with possible topics including, but not limited to, the colorimetric method, the fluorescence method, the electrochemical method, the chemiluminiscence method, and other novel methods. We are happy to invite authors to contribute original research articles or review articles covering the most recent progress in analysis and detection technology.

Dr. Lijun Wang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • biosensor
  • rapid detection
  • aptamers
  • antibody
  • enzymes
  • nanomaterials
  • colorimetric method
  • fluorescence method
  • electrochemical method
  • chemiluminiscence method

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Advances in Research on Isothermal Signal Amplification Mediated MicroRNA Detection of Clinical Samples: Application to Disease Diagnosis
by Yu Han, Xin Sun and Sheng Cai
Biosensors 2025, 15(6), 395; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios15060395 - 18 Jun 2025
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With the rapid development of modern molecular biology, microRNA (miRNA) has been demonstrated to be closely associated with the occurrence and development of tumors and holds significant promise as a biomarker for the early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer and other diseases. [...] Read more.
With the rapid development of modern molecular biology, microRNA (miRNA) has been demonstrated to be closely associated with the occurrence and development of tumors and holds significant promise as a biomarker for the early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer and other diseases. Therefore, detecting miRNA and analyzing it to determine its biological functions are of great significance for the screening and diagnosis of diseases. However, the intrinsic characteristics of miRNAs, including their low abundance, short sequence lengths, and high family-specific sequence homology, render traditional detection methods such as Northern blot hybridization, microarray use, and reverse transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) inadequate for meeting the stringent requirements of clinical detection in biological samples, a task requiring accuracy, rapidity, high detection power, specificity, and cost-effectiveness. In recent years, a substantial amount of effort has been put into developing innovative methodologies to address these challenges. In this review, we aim to provide a comprehensive overview of the recent advancements in these methodologies and their applications in clinical biological sample detection for disease diagnosis. Full article
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