Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for fabricating a three-dimensional porous fibrous microstructure, various three-dimensional porous fibrous microstructures fabricated by the method, an apparatus for detecting a biological marker and a drug delivery system comprising the microstructure. The porous fibrous microstructure of the present invention has excellent interconnectivity between pores and micropores and captures and delivers target particles at high efficiency, and thus can be usefully applied to biomedical applications including the detection of a biomarker and drug delivery.
Abstract:
Devices and methods for detecting the length of analytes, and/or sequencing analytes are provided in which two or more electrical signals are obtained as an analyte traverses a fluidic channel. Detection of the relative position of probes hybridized to a biopolymer and/or the length of the analyte (e.g., a biopolymer) does not rely on the absolute time between detection events of a given electrical signal to determine a distance associated with the biopolymer. Instead, multiple signals are obtained as functions of time) corresponding to a plurality of detector volumes at known locations along a fluidic channel through which the biopolymer passes, and the distances are determined from the multiple signals.
Abstract:
The invention herein disclosed provides for devices and methods that can detect and control an individual polymer in a mixture is acted upon by another compound, for example, an enzyme, in a nanopore in the absence of requiring a terminating nucleotide. The devices and methods are also used to determine rapidly (˜>50 Hz) the nucleotide base sequence of a polynucleotide under feedback control or using signals generated by the interactions between the polynucleotide and the nanopore. The invention is of particular use in the fields of drug discovery, molecular biology, structural biology, cell biology, molecular switches, molecular circuits, and molecular computational devices, and the manufacture thereof.
Abstract:
Devices and methods that can detect and control an individual polymer in a mixture is acted upon by another compound, for example, an enzyme, in a nanopore are provided. The devices and methods also determine (˜>50 Hz) the nucleotide base sequence of a polynucleotide under feedback control or using signals generated by the interactions between the polynucleotide and the nanopore. The invention is of particular use in the fields of molecular biology, structural biology, cell biology, molecular switches, molecular circuits, and molecular computational devices, and the manufacture thereof.
Abstract:
A sensing system includes an inductor-capacitor-resistor (LCR) resonator sensor having a substrate, a plurality of first sensing elements mutually spaced apart and disposed on the substrate, and a sensing material film being disposed on a first sensing region of the corresponding first sensing element.
Abstract:
Various embodiments provide devices, methods, and systems for high throughput biomolecule detection using transducer arrays. In one embodiment, a transducer array made up of transducer elements may be used to detect byproducts from chemical reactions that involve redox genic tags. Each transducer element may include at least a reaction chamber and a fingerprinting region, configured to flow a fluid from the reaction chamber through the fingerprinting region. The reaction chamber can include a molecule attachment region and the fingerprinting region can include at least one set of electrodes separated by a nanogap for conducting redox cycling reactions. In embodiments, by flowing the chamber content obtained from a reaction of a latent redox tagged probe molecule, a catalyst, and a target molecule in the reaction chamber through the fingerprinting region, the redox cycling reactions can be detected to identify redox-tagged biomolecules.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a sensor array device with multiple sensor junctions which have been created through the assembly of two or more differently functionalized surfaces. The functionalizing of the prospective sensor junction areas with sensor compounds occurred when the different surfaces were physically separated from each other before the assembly of the sensor array. By these means, sensor junctions can be built smaller than conventional deposition techniques like printing and photolithography would allow for otherwise. As a consequence, each individual sensor junction contains two potentially different sensor compounds. The sensor array identifies and quantifies different biomolecules.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a plurality of biosensors includes the steps of: providing a base with a surface; forming a carbon nanotube array including a plurality of carbon nanotubes substantially parallels to each other on the surface; forming a plurality of lead pairs on the surface, the plurality of lead pairs divides the plurality of carbon nanotubes into a plurality of first carbon nanotubes and a plurality of second carbon nanotubes; eliminating the plurality of second carbon nanotubes; cutting the plurality of first carbon nanotubes to form a plurality of third carbon nanotubes and a plurality of fourth carbon nanotubes; and fabricating a plurality of receptors to electrically connect the plurality of third carbon nanotubes to the plurality of fourth carbon nanotubes.
Abstract:
Electrodes and methods for making electrodes including modified carbon nanotube sheets are provided. The carbon nanotube sheets can be modified with metal particles or at least one mediator titrant. The electrodes can be disposed on a glassy carbon electrode to modify the glassy carbon electrode. Methods are provided that include forming a suspension of carbon nanotubes and metal particles or at least one mediator titrant, and filtering the suspension to form a modified carbon nanotube sheet.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a diagnostic device and methods of using the same for diagnostic assays for monitoring the presence of biological samples wherein the device allows for the determination of at least two assay components on one sensor. More specifically, the invention relates to a multi-marker electrochemical impedance spectroscopy sensor comprising a plurality of molecular recognition elements wherein the sensor comprises multiple different molecular recognition element types that are tuned in a manner that alters the frequency of the molecular recognition element type such that it is at a detectably different frequency to the frequency of other molecular recognition element types on the same sensor.