Sensitive and specific methodologies for detection of pathogenic gene at the point-of-care are still urgent demands in rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases. This work develops a simple and pragmatic electrochemical biosensing strategy for ultrasensitive and specific detection of pathogenic nucleic acids directly by integrating homogeneous target-initiated transcription amplification (HTITA) w...

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is known to be generated in Photosystem II (PSII) via enzymatic and non-enzymatic pathways. Detection of H2O2 by different spectroscopic techniques has been explored, however its sensitive detection has always been a challenge in photosynthetic research. During the recent past, fluorescence probes such as Amplex Red (AR) has been used but is known to either lack specifi...

Controllable preparation of nanopores to promote the performance of electrochemical biosensing interfaces has become one of the researching frontiers in biosensing. A double biocatalysis signal amplification of glucose biosensor for the study of electrochemical behaviors of glucose oxidase (GOx) was proposed by using horseradish peroxidase biosynthesized porous graphene (PGR) as the platform fo...

A highly sensitive glucose detection method was developed using functionalized carbon nanotube buckypaper as a free standing electrode in an electrochemical biosensor. Glucose oxidase was immobilized onto various buckypaper samples in order to oxidize glucose resulting in a measureable current/voltage signal output of the biosensor. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) and amperometry were utilized to deter...

Sensitive detection of miRNA-21 provides remarkable results for the diagnosis early breast cancer. Here, we fabricated a novel electrochemical biosensor ultrasensitive via in situ reduction gold nanoparticles (AuNPs)-decorated Ti 3 C 2 MXene, combined with cascaded signal amplification strategy, that is, strand displacement DNA walker-induced multi-DNA (product DNA) release and cyclic enzymatic...

Currently, the detection of DNA is an area of great interest as it is the key feature in the research for specific nucleotide sequences of DNA detection. This technique plays an important role in biodiagnostics (Ali et al. 2012b), determination of genetic diversity (Hood and Galas 2003), criminal investigation in forensics and immigration (Heller 2002), food analysis (Ali et al. 2012a, c) and e...

Using two nano-porous pseudo carbon paste electrodes (Nano-PPCPEs) as the working electrodes, a saturated calomel electrode as the reference electrode, and a Pt electrode as the counter electrode to form a four-electrode system, a novel type of glutamate-acetylcholine electrochemical biosensor array was successfully fabricated. It was shown that the biosensor array displayed a high selectivity ...

The group 2 allergen, Der p2, has been reported to activate innate toll-like receptors (TLRs) on respiratory epithelial cells and thus aggravate respiratory diseases. In this study, a highly sensitive nanostructured biosensor based on a 3D sensing element with uniformly deposited gold nanoparticles is proposed for the detection of the dust mite antigen Der p2. The barrier layer comprises an ano...

This paper reports the characterization of an electrochemical biosensor for the continuous monitoring of Naproxen based on cytochrome P450. The electrochemical biosensor is based on the drop-casting of multi-walled carbon-nanotubes (MWCNTs) and microsomal cytochrome P4501A2 (msCYP1A2) on a graphite screen-printed electrode (SPE). The proposed biosensor was employed to monitor Naproxen (NAP), a ...

Laccase amperometric biosensors were developed to detect the catechol compound. The laccase enzyme (LAC) immobilization was performed on nanostructures of (a) titania (TiO₂); (b) titania/Nafion (TiO₂/NAF) (both immobilized by the sol-gel method) and a third nanostructure, which consisted of a single biosensor composite of Nafion and laccase enzyme denoted as NAF/LAC. The Nafion was deposited on...