Aptasensors for Point-of-Care Diagnostics

This book covers design and development of novel cost-effective aptamer-based biosensors for disease diagnostic and prognostic including understanding of health care management in terms of timely update of disease situation in a particular geographical area.

Arpana Parihar is currently working as a Women Scientist B at CSIR- AMPRI, Bhopal, MP, India, under the scheme of DST-WoS-B awarded from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Raju Khan is currently working as a Principal Scientist and Associate Professor at CSIR-AMPRI Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has more than 15 years of experience in electrochemistry, and development of biosensors-based diagnostics.

1. Overview of aptamer-based biosensors 2. Biomarkers for aptamer-based diagnostic applications 3. Designing and synthesis of aptamer via various approaches (SELEX and ExSELEX) 4. A comparative study of aptasensor versus immunosensor for biomarker detection 5. Aptamer-based point-of-care diagnostic devices for infectious diseases 6. Aptamer-based colorimetric biosensor 7. Aptamer beacon probes for the detection and visualization of miRNA 8. Microfluidics-enabled aptamer-based sensing devices - the aptafluidics microdevices 9. Fabrication of aptamer-based electrochemical biosensor for health care monitoring 10. Challenges and advances in aptamer-based biosensing approaches 11. Current perspectives of aptasensors as diagnostic tools for oncological diseases