Main description:

Research on new sensing concepts has opened the door to a wide variety of microsystems for clinical applications. Such devices are extremely useful for delivering diagnostic information in a fast, simple, and low cost fashion. This book is one of the first to focus on the use of nanotechnology in diagnostics. Designed as a broad survey of the field, this book combines contributions by international experts from divergent fields of study ranging from single molecule diagnostics to cell based systems.

Contents:

Preface, List of Contributors, 1. Biased Diffusion and Rectified Brownian Motion at the Nanoscale Driving Mobile Sensing Automata for the Early Diagnosis of Endogenous Diseases, 2. Biotechnology-Utilized Nanopore for Single-Molecule Investigation, 3. Self-assembled Peptide and Protein Nanostructures in Diagnosis, 4. Electrochemical Sensor Systems for Medicine, 5. Conductive Polymers in Medical Diagnostics, 6. Biosensors for Diagnostic Based on Olfactory Receptors, 7. Nanomedicine Technologies for Cell-based Drug Screening, 8. Emerging Nanotechnology for Efficient Capture of Circulating Tumor Cells, 9. Detection of Bacterial Habits: Single Planktonic Cells and Assembled Biofilm, Index, Color Plate Section