Virus Biosensing
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "General Virology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 3361
Special Issue Editor
Interests: design and develop a variety of fluorescence analysis technologies for the early diagnosis of diseases and answer basic scientific questions in virology; synthetic biosensors for disease diagnosis and food safety; design and synthesis of fluorescence nanoprobes; virus labelling and tracking
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The outbreak of infectious viruses presents one of the greatest threats to public healthcare systems. Controlling the spread of these viruses continues to be a global challenge. Early and accurate virus diagnosis is crucial for preventing virus transmission, especially when lacking a specific vaccine or effective medicine. Several methods have been constructed for viral detection in clinics, including molecular diagnosis and immunoassays for measuring nucleic acids or protein biomarkers. However, most molecular diagnosis-based methods require complex infrastructure and expensive equipment, which are not suitable for resource-limited settings. Most immunoassays, such as lateral flow assays, show high speed, but their sensitivity is limited for accurate diagnosis. Various new emerging diagnosis technologies, including CRISPR/Cas system, DNA nanotechnology, microfluidics, and smartphone-based point-of-care testing, have been developed to enhance sensitivity, speed, specificity, and portability.
Therefore, we invite researchers from around the world to submit original research and review articles focused on emerging methods for virus detection, including nucleic acid amplification, CRISPR-based detection, DNA nanotechnology, point-of-care testing, etc.
Dr. Guobin Mao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- virus detection
- molecular diagnosis
- immunoassay
- nucleic acid amplification
- CRISPR-based detection
- nucleic acid assembly
- biosensor
- point-of-care testing
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