Biosensors

Technology Map Contents

October 2008

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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
• Monoclonal Antibodies
• Protein Engineering
• Conductive Polymers
• Nanotechnologies, Miniaturization, and Integration of Sensor Functions
• Use of Animal Tissue for Biosensors
• Use of Insect Antennae for Biosensors
• Use of Plant Tissue Materials for Biosensors
• Biosensor-Industry Activity
• Organisms from Unusual Environments
• Biomarker Discovery
• Epigenetics

Implications of Commercialization

• Biosensors for Point-of-Care Monitoring
• New Environmental-Monitoring Formats
• Higher Profile for Food Quality and Safety
• Effective Online Process Control

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

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