BIOSENSING INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

The goal of this book is to disseminate information on the worldwide status and trends in biosensing R&D to government decision makers and the research community. The contributors critically analyse and compare biosensing research in the United States with that being pursued in Japan, Europe and other major industrialized countries.

Biosensing includes systems that incorporate a variety of means, including electrical, electronic and photonic devices; biological materials (e. g. , tissue, enzymes, nucleic acids, etc. ) and chemical analysis to produce detectable signals for the monitoring or identification of biological phenomena. In a broader sense, the study of biosensing includes any approach to detection of biological elements and the associated software or computer identification technologies (e. g. , imaging) that identify biological characteristics.