Biosensors for Rapid Diagnostics

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, design and fabrication of biosensor systems for health monitoring have become a hot research field. These sensors can measure disease biomarkers such as specific biomolecules, enzymes, antibodies, antigens, hormones, genes, gene products, and even complex organ functions in a rapid and low-cost manner. Intensive biosensor research in recent years has accumulated many scientific publications and attracted a great deal of attention and discussions in the public, the scientific community, and governmental agencies. However, commercialization of these rapid sensors for real applications and entering our daily lives is noticeably lagging. The “ASSURED” criteria (i.e., affordable, sensitive, specific, user-friendly, rapid and robust, equipment-free, deliver to the users who need them), set by the World Health Organization, specify the whole spectrum of requirements for low-cost biosensors designed for use in developing countries; they define the technical capabilities (i.e., “ASSR”) and user acceptance (i.e., “UED”) of low-cost sensing technology. While ASSR should be taken as the basic requirements of any sensor, UED determines whether the sensors could potentially be commercialized and gain user acceptance. This perspective presents these two critical aspects of rapid diagnostics by revisiting the original motivation of the analytical platforms. In this Special Issue, we will focus on the importance of UED that deserve smore research to increase the commercialization of biosensors.

Dr. Azadeh Nilghaz
Guest Editor

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