Biosensors (Basel)
September 2023
Breast cancer (BC) is one of the most common types of cancer disease worldwide and it accounts for thousands of deaths annually. Lapatinib is among the preferred drugs for the treatment of breast cancer. Possible drug toxicity effects of lapatinib can be controlled by real-time determination of the appropriate dose for a patient at the point of care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe high incidence of tuberculosis (TB) infection is of great concern world-wide. The traditional TB diagnostic techniques are not ideal for TB diagnosis in resource-poor countries. This is due to their high complexity, expensive nature, long time duration, poor sensitivity and specificity, as well as their requirement for sophisticated laboratories with special biosafety conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe detection of toxic gases has long been a priority in industrial manufacturing, environmental monitoring, medical diagnosis, and national defense. The importance of gas sensing is not only of high benefit to such industries but also to the daily lives of people. Graphene-based gas sensors have elicited a lot of interest recently, due to the excellent physical properties of graphene and its derivatives, such as graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO).
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