Biosensors are low‐cost and low‐maintenance alternatives to conventional analytical
techniques for biomedical, industrial and environmental applications. Biosensors based on …

Using recombinant DNA technology, various whole-cell biosensors have been developed
for detection of environmental pollutants, including heavy metal ions. Whole-cell biosensors …

Mercury contamination in the environment has reached alarming levels. Due to its
persistence and bioaccumulation, mercury is one of the most widespread toxic heavy metals …

This review analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of using eukaryotic
microorganisms to design whole-cell biosensors (WCBs) for monitoring environmental …

In this work, we report the design, fabrication, and preliminary assessment of analytical
performance of a smartphone-based bioluminescence (BL) whole-cell toxicity biosensor …

Synthetic biology transforms the way we perceive biological systems. Emerging
technologies in this field affect many disciplines of science and engineering. Traditionally …

Yeast biosensors have become suitable tools for the screening and detection of
environmental pollutants because of their various advantages compared to other sensing …

Heavy metals, that is Cu (II), are harmful to the environment. There is an increasing demand
to develop inexpensive detection methods for heavy metals. Here, we developed a yeast …

The availability of new bioluminescent proteins with tuned properties, both in terms of
emission wavelength, kinetics and protein stability, is highly valuable in the bioanalytical …

Biosensors are regarded as a powerful tool to detect and monitor environmental
contaminants, toxins, and, more generally, organic or chemical markers of potential threats …