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

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

Updates

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