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Optical fiber-based sensors: application to chemical biology
Kathryn L Brogan1, David R Walt
1Department of Chemistry, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
|August 30, 2005
Abstract:
Optical fibers have been used to develop sensors based on nucleic acids and cells. Sensors employing DNA probes have been developed for various genomics applications and microbial pathogen detection. Live cell-based sensors have enabled the monitoring of environmental toxins, and have been used for fundamental studies on populations of individual cells. Both single-core optical fiber sensors and optical fiber sensor arrays have been used for sensing based on nucleic acids and live cells.

