biosensor

[ bahy-oh-sen-ser, -sawr, bahy-oh-sen- ]

noun

1. a device that senses and transmits information about a biological process, as blood pressure, of an individual under observation.

Word History and Origins

Origin of biosensor¹

bio- + sensor

Example Sentences

Led by Professor Hiroshi Shiigi of the Graduate School of Engineering, the team experimented with a biosensor that can simultaneously detect multiple disease-causing bacterial species within an hour.

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His team synthesized organic metallic nanohybrids of gold and copper that do not interfere with each other, so that electrochemical signals can be distinguished on the same screen-printed electrode chip of the biosensor.

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When the biosensor, a specially created protein, comes into contact with the chemical researchers wanted to create, it glows green.

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"The biosensor allows us to test and analyze samples in seconds when it used to take something like five minutes each," said Simon d'Oelsnitz, a postdoctoral researcher formerly at UT Austin and now at Harvard University, the first author of the paper.

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The scientists also created a fluorescent biosensor to quickly detect and analyze which bacteria were producing the desired chemicals and how much.

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