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Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Electrochemical Sensors

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2023) | Viewed by 4699

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Cecil and Ida A.Green Professor in Systems Biology, Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas, Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
Interests: gas sensors; metal oxide systems; low power field deployable sensors

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Electrochemical sensors have been widely used for environmental, chemical, and biological sensing. As we transition into remote health, addressing health disparities and non-contact monitoring, electrochemical sensors will continue to play a pivotal role. In this collection, we seek to feature novel and emerging work that focuses on designing electrochemical sensors with a view on diversity, equity, and inclusion. The approach to electrochemical sensors can be multidisciplinary, from novel material integration with a low cost of ownership to applications for rare diseases to electrochemical sensors that make quality of life more equitable around the globe. This collection seeks to look at electrochemical sensors through addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Electrochemical Sensors.

Prof. Dr. Spyridon Kintzios
Prof. Dr. Shalini Prasad
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • health disparities
  • chemical
  • environmental
  • disease
  • biological
  • diversity, equity, and inclusion

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Advances in Electrochemical Biosensor Technologies for the Detection of Nucleic Acid Breast Cancer Biomarkers
by Ana-Maria Chiorcea-Paquim
Sensors 2023, 23(8), 4128; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23084128 - 20 Apr 2023
Cited by 15 | Viewed by 4251
Abstract
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide; therefore, there is an increased need for the discovery, development, optimization, and quantification of diagnostic biomarkers that can improve the disease diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic outcome. Circulating cell-free nucleic acids [...] Read more.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide; therefore, there is an increased need for the discovery, development, optimization, and quantification of diagnostic biomarkers that can improve the disease diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic outcome. Circulating cell-free nucleic acids biomarkers such as microRNAs (miRNAs) and breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1) allow the characterization of the genetic features and screening breast cancer patients. Electrochemical biosensors offer excellent platforms for the detection of breast cancer biomarkers due to their high sensitivity and selectivity, low cost, use of small analyte volumes, and easy miniaturization. In this context, this article provides an exhaustive review concerning the electrochemical methods of characterization and quantification of different miRNAs and BRCA1 breast cancer biomarkers using electrochemical DNA biosensors based on the detection of hybridization events between a DNA or peptide nucleic acid probe and the target nucleic acid sequence. The fabrication approaches, the biosensors architectures, the signal amplification strategies, the detection techniques, and the key performance parameters, such as the linearity range and the limit of detection, were discussed. Full article
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