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  • Article
  • Open Access
650 Views
15 Pages

10 August 2025

Thermal stress poses escalating threats to aquatic ecosystems, yet current biomonitoring tools lack real-time integration of multidimensional physiological responses. To address this gap, we developed the Physiological and Ecological Comprehensive An...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,500 Views
27 Pages

23 October 2021

Continuous monitoring and early warning of potential water contamination with toxic chemicals is of paramount importance for human health and sustainable food production. During the last few decades there have been noteworthy advances in technologies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,226 Views
19 Pages

Potentially Toxic Planktic and Benthic Cyanobacteria in Slovenian Freshwater Bodies: Detection by Quantitative PCR

  • Maša Zupančič,
  • Polona Kogovšek,
  • Tadeja Šter,
  • Špela Remec Rekar,
  • Leonardo Cerasino,
  • Špela Baebler,
  • Aleksandra Krivograd Klemenčič and
  • Tina Eleršek

11 February 2021

Due to increased frequency of cyanobacterial blooms and emerging evidence of cyanotoxicity in biofilm, reliable methods for early cyanotoxin threat detection are of major importance for protection of human, animal and environmental health. To complem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,553 Views
15 Pages

Real-Time Detection of Yeast Growth on Solid Medium through Passive Microresonator Biosensor

  • Bo-Wen Shi,
  • Jun-Ming Zhao,
  • Yi-Ke Wang,
  • Yan-Xiong Wang,
  • Yan-Feng Jiang,
  • Gang-Long Yang,
  • Jicheng Wang and
  • Tian Qiang

26 April 2024

This study presents a biosensor fabricated based on integrated passive device (IPD) technology to measure microbial growth on solid media in real-time. Yeast (Pichia pastoris, strain GS115) is used as a model organism to demonstrate biosensor perform...

  • Review
  • Open Access
147 Citations
27,586 Views
21 Pages

23 July 2021

Recent advances in microfluidics, microelectronics, and electrochemical sensing methods have steered the way for the development of novel and potential wearable biosensors for healthcare monitoring. Wearable bioelectronics has received tremendous att...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,538 Views
15 Pages

10 February 2021

Biomonitoring of phytoplankton communities in freshwater ecosystems is imperative for efficient water quality management. In the present study, we present the seasonal diversity of phytoplankton from the non-reservoir area of the Han River (Korea), a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,096 Views
11 Pages

Quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Assay for Rapid Monitoring of the Harmful Algal Bloom Species Cochlodinium polykrikoides

  • Min-Jeong Kim,
  • Hyun-Jung Kim,
  • Joon Sang Park,
  • Donhyug Kang,
  • Sungho Cho,
  • Hansoo Kim,
  • Seung Ho Baek,
  • Jordan Jun Chul Park,
  • Jeonghoon Han and
  • Kang Eun Kim
  • + 1 author

Harmful blooms of the dinoflagellate Cochlodinium polykrikoides (Margalefidinium polykrikoides) had detrimental aquacultural and economic effects globally, and to reduce the damage caused by these blooms, early biomonitoring and quantitative analysis...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,932 Views
28 Pages

Flexible Ceramic Film Sensors for Free-Form Devices

  • Tomohiko Nakajima,
  • Yuki Fujio,
  • Tohru Sugahara and
  • Tetsuo Tsuchiya

3 March 2022

Recent technological innovations, such as material printing techniques and surface functionalization, have significantly accelerated the development of new free-form sensors for next-generation flexible, wearable, and three-dimensional electronic dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,596 Views
14 Pages

Indoor microbiological air quality, including airborne bacteria and fungi, is associated with hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) and emerging as an environmental issue in hospital environment. Many studies have been carried out based on culture-base...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,856 Views
9 Pages

Effects of Highly Polluted Environment on Sperm Telomere Length: A Pilot Study

  • Cecilia Vecoli,
  • Luigi Montano,
  • Andrea Borghini,
  • Tiziana Notari,
  • Antonino Guglielmino,
  • Antonella Mercuri,
  • Stefano Turchi and
  • Maria Grazia Andreassi

High environmental pressure may impair male fertility by affecting sperm quality, but the real effect remains controversial. Herein, we assessed the influence of environmental exposure on telomere length (TL) in both leukocytes (LTL) and sperm cells...

  • Review
  • Open Access
918 Views
24 Pages

Environmental DNA Metabarcoding in Marine Ecosystems: Global Advances, Methodological Challenges, and Applications in the MENA Region

  • Sandy K. Sawh,
  • Sarah Merabet,
  • Nayla Higazy,
  • Marwa Béji,
  • Johan Mølgård Sørensen,
  • Pedro Range,
  • Ahmad M. Alqudah and
  • Mohamed Nejib Daly Yahia

22 October 2025

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has transformed marine biodiversity monitoring by allowing non-invasive, cost-effective detection of species with high resolution across diverse marine habitats. A systematic literature search was conducted usin...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,014 Views
31 Pages

Identification of Real-Life Mixtures Using Human Biomonitoring Data: A Proof of Concept Study

  • Laura Rodriguez Martin,
  • Ilse Ottenbros,
  • Nina Vogel,
  • Marike Kolossa-Gehring,
  • Phillipp Schmidt,
  • Katarína Řiháčková,
  • Miguel Juliá Molina,
  • Elena Varea-Jiménez,
  • Eva Govarts and
  • Susana Pedraza-Diaz
  • + 3 authors

22 February 2023

Human health risk assessment of chemical mixtures is complex due to the almost infinite number of possible combinations of chemicals to which people are exposed to on a daily basis. Human biomonitoring (HBM) approaches can provide inter alia informat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,043 Views
17 Pages

Detecting Airborne Pollen Using an Automatic, Real-Time Monitoring System: Evidence from Two Sites

  • Maria Pilar Plaza,
  • Franziska Kolek,
  • Vivien Leier-Wirtz,
  • Jens Otto Brunner,
  • Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann and
  • Athanasios Damialis

Airborne pollen monitoring has been an arduous task, making ecological applications and allergy management virtually disconnected from everyday practice. Over the last decade, intensive research has been conducted worldwide to automate this task and...