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The practice of medicine has changed dramatically over the past decades with the drastic development in the field of biosensors. It had a significant impact on all aspects of the healthcare sector. The concern about the detection of chemical or biological important compounds and their need is expanded from clinical diagnostics to personal care/point care devices. Assessment of health and functioning is one of the growing apprehensions in the common population. With the expanding of technology every day, it is possible to take healthcare technology to the doorstep of the patient. Consider a few examples that are important in today’s lifestyle: a diabetic monitor/glucometer, pregnancy strips, insulin drug administrator, biochips, etc. Other significant developments include the use of protein/other biomolecules as a device component (biorecognition element) rather than constituents of a living cell and the application of production methods such as screen printing that can manufacture a very large number of sensors with a high degree of reproducibility. These studies had further become a prerequisite for design and development in biosensors field to emerge as a commercial product from the laboratory. The application of biosensors now has also broadened with time from clinical diagnostics to environmental monitoring, food industry, agriculture, textile industry, water management and many more.
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Janani Viswananthan, Govindasamy, G. (2019). Biosensors and its Transducers. In: Paul, S. (eds) Biomedical Engineering and its Applications in Healthcare. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3705-5_6
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