Fast, robust, and affordable antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) is required, as roughly
50% of antibiotic treatments are started with wrong antibiotics and without a proper …

Pathogenic microorganisms are causative agents of various infectious diseases that are
becoming increasingly serious worldwide. For the successful treatment of pathogenic …

Bacterial pathogens are important targets for detection and identification in medicine, food
safety, public health, and security. Bacterial infection is a common cause of morbidity and …

Blood stream infection or sepsis is a major health problem worldwide, with extremely high
mortality, which is partly due to the inability to rapidly detect and identify bacteria in the early …

Micro and nanoelectromechanical systems M/NEMS have been extensively investigated
and exploited in the past few decades for various applications and for probing fundamental …

Surface plasmon resonance microscopy (SPRM) is a versatile platform for chemical and
biological sensing and imaging. Great progress in exploring its applications, ranging from …

Blood contains a range of protein biomarkers that could be used in the early detection of
disease. To achieve this, however, requires sensors capable of detecting (with high …

Infectious diseases caused by bacterial pathogens are a worldwide burden. Serious
bacterial infection-related complications, such as sepsis, affect over a million people every …

The marriage of highly sensitive biosensor designs with the versatility in sample handling
and fluidic manipulation offered by lab-on-a-chip systems promises to yield powerful tools …

Cantilevers in microelectromechanical systems have the advantages of non-labeling, real-
time detection, positioning, and specificity. Rectangular solid, rectangular hollow, and …