A sensor that requires no nanoscale patterning detects single molecules of a breast cancer protein at concentrations 250 ...

Porous silicon (PSi) has emerged as a highly versatile material for biosensing and optical applications, owing to its high internal surface area, tunable pore sizes and exceptional optical properties.

A new variant of human mpox has claimed the lives of approximately 5% of people with reported infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2023, many of them children. Since then, it has ...

Illustration of the self-illuminating biosensor: A metasurface of gold nanowires drives quantum light emission and concentrates the resulting light waves to detect biomolecules. Optical biosensors use ...

A portable biosensor developed at La Trobe University may allow rapid, on-site detection of toxic "forever chemicals" in ...

Rapid and reliable virus detection is one of the most critical tools for controlling outbreaks, from seasonal influenza to ...

The virus has been proven deadly in cats, and there has been at least one case of a humandeath from H5N1. "This biosensor is the first of its kind," said Chakrabarty, speaking of the technology used ...

Monkeypox is a growing current health concern, with a potentially fatal variant of human mpox spreading across certain African countries, and a different non-lethal variant also now being observed ...