Biosensors
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Technology Map Detailed Contents February 2022
Importance of the Technology
The Technology in Brief
Commercial Development Parameters
- Demand Factors
- General Constraints
- Synergistic Technologies
- Competing Technologies
- Required Resources
- Regulatory Factors
Areas to Monitor
- Molecular Electronics
- Advances in Immobilization Techniques
- Membranes
- Nanotechnologies, Miniaturization, and Integration of Sensor Functions
- Monoclonal Antibodies
- Aptasensors
- Protein Engineering
- Quantum Dots
- Surface-Plasmon Resonance
- Microfluidics and MEMS
- Use of Tissues from Organisms for Biosensors
- Organisms from Unusual Environments
- Biomarker Discovery
- Epigenetics
- Big Data and Biology
- Wearable Biosensors
Implications of Commercialization
- Biosensors for Point-of-Care Monitoring
- New Environmental-Monitoring Formats
- Higher Profile for Food Quality and Safety
- Maturation of Biohacking
Opportunities
- Health Care
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- Pharmaceutical Development and Processing
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- Food Production, Processing, and Packaging
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- Environmental Monitoring and Homeland Security
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities