Highlights•TDM has the capacity to transform healthcare but lacks suitable portable
equipment.•ECBs can enable on-site TDM with the potential for fast, cheap, simple …

Optical biosensors are low-cost, sensitive and portable devices that are poised to
revolutionize the medical industry. Healthcare monitoring has already been transformed by …

While identifying acute HIV infection is critical to providing prompt treatment to HIV-positive
individuals and preventing transmission, existing laboratory-based testing methods are too …

Due to their portability, versatility for supporting multiple assay formats, and potential for
resulting in low-cost assays, paper-based analytical devices (PADs) are an increasingly …

Biopharmaceuticals are complex pharmaceutical drug products produced by biotechnology
in living systems. Small changes in the production process can induce differences in the …

With an increasing number of patients relying on blood thinners to treat medical conditions,
there is a rising need for rapid, low-cost, portable testing of blood coagulation time or …

The emergence and spread of bacterial resistance to antibiotics has developed into one of
the most challenging threats to public health. Antibiotic susceptibility tests (ASTs) for …

Zoonotic outbreaks present with unpredictable threats to human health, food production,
biodiversity, national security and disrupt the global economy. The COVID-19 pandemic …

This paper describes the design, fabrication, and feasibility of paper-based optode devices
(PODs) for sensing potassium selectively in biological fluids. PODs operate in exhaustive …

Photonic technologies promise to deliver quantitative, multiplex, and inexpensive medical
diagnostic platforms by leveraging the highly scalable processes developed for the …