Researchers have developed an optical biosensor that detects the virus that causes mpox. The technology could make diagnosis much faster and cost-effective as the disease continues to spread worldwide ...

Traditional plasmonic biosensors rely on bulky optical setups. A semiconductor chip packed with tiny lasers hints at a far more compact sensing architecture ...

Swedish researchers have developed diminutive laser technology with the potential to move certain types of medical sampling ...

Porous silicon (PSi) has emerged as a highly versatile material for biosensing and optical applications, owing to its high internal surface area, tunable pore sizes and exceptional optical properties.

Patent covers pristine graphene–based biosensor technology to translate protease activity into measurable optical ...

A research team at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed new laser technology that could lead to tiny, ...

Optical biosensors based on surface-plasmon resonance are an important tool used for studying how various biomolecules interact with each other - for example antibodies in the immune system. With his ...

Scientists at Cornell University, NY, have developed a synthetic biosensor that mimics properties found in cell membranes and provides an electronic readout of activity. They say it “could lead to a ...

A new variant of human mpox has claimed the lives of approximately 5% of people with reported infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2023, many of them children. Since then, it has ...

Monkeypox is a growing current health concern, with a potentially fatal variant of human mpox spreading across certain African countries, and a different non-lethal variant also now being observed ...