Biomedical Diagnostic Science PDF

Preface

Without medical diagnostic reagents, the practice of medicine would be difficult if not impossible. Medical reagents play an important role in maintaining and improving our wellness. Research in this area will continue unabated, and use of these reagents will ever increase. The gene chip will revolutionize our ability to fight diseases as no method before. The recent development of newer concepts and rapid advances in medical diagnostic reagents encouraged us to bring together the information in this volume.

The book reviews work at the cutting edge in diagnostics, immunodiagnostics, and biosensors. Noninvasive methods, new signals for analyte detection, newer diagnostic polymers and coatings, and enzyme stabilization and immobilization methods are comprehensively discussed. Gene chip, or biochip, and related technologies are also discussed.

This book is organized into five sections: electrochemical biosensing systems; optical biosensing systems; newer detection systems; diabetes and cholesterol: systems and management; and polymeric materials, immobilization, and biocompatibility.

Although we will see more advances in medical diagnostics and biosensors in the future, we believe this comprehensive and authoritative treatise will continue to serve the intended users for many years.

Chemists (bioorganic, physical, polymer), biochemists, engineers (biomedical, chemical, coatings), biotechnologists, and physicians (research and endocrinologists) will find this book useful, as will graduate students working in diagnostics and biosensors. It will serve as a textbook for schools offering graduate courses in biosensors.

With the help of leading scientists, we are most pleased to bring this authoritative book to the readership.