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Category: Disease Diagnostics

Complementary Cost-Effective Electrochemical Platforms for Point-Of-Use Biosensing

2024 August

Complementary cost-effective electrochemical platforms for point-of-use biosensing
Advanced Sensor Research
Mason Monaco, Marjon Zamani, Ava Sarram, Chao-Chi Kuo, Chathurika Abeyrathne, Miaosi Li, and Ariel L. Furst

Posted in Disease Diagnostics, Electrochemistry
Improving electrochemical hybridization assays with restriction enzymes

2024 Jan

Improving electrochemical hybridization assays with restriction enzymes
Chemical Communications
Xingcheng Zhou, Marjon Zamani, Katherine Austin, Marieke De Bock, Joshua Chaj Ullola, Smah Rikia and Ariel L. Furst

Posted in Disease Diagnostics
Carbon Electrode-Based Biosensing Enabled by Biocompatible Surface Modification with DNA and Proteins

2023 Jan

Carbon Electrode-Based Biosensing Enabled by Biocompatible Surface Modification with DNA and Proteins
Bioconjugate Chemistry
Amruta Karbelkar, Rachel Ahlmark, Xingcheng Zhou, Katherine Austin, Gang Fan, Victoria Y. Yang, and Ariel Furst

Posted in Disease Diagnostics, Electrochemistry
Recent Advances in Gold Electrode Fabrication for Low-Resource Setting Biosensing

2023 Jan

Recent Advances in Gold Electrode Fabrication for Low-Resource Setting Biosensors
Lab on a Chip
Marjon Zamani, Catherine M. Klapperich and Ariel L. Furst

Posted in Disease Diagnostics
Recent Advances in Signal Amplification to Improve Electrochemical Biosensing for Infectious Diseases

2022 June

Recent Advances in Signal Amplification to Improve Electrochemical Biosensing for Infectious Diseases
Frontiers in Chemistry
Xingcheng Zhou, Daena A. Schuh, Lauren M. Castle, and Ariel L. Furst

Posted in Biomolecular Catalysis, Disease Diagnostics
Electricity, chemistry and biomarkers: an elegant and simple package

2022 April

Electricity, chemistry and biomarkers: an elegant and simple package
EMBO Reports
Marjon Zamani and Ariel L. Furst

Posted in Disease Diagnostics
Perspective—Electrochemical Sensors for Neurotransmitters and Psychiatrics: Steps toward Physiological Mental Health Monitoring

2022 April

Perspective—Electrochemical Sensors for Neurotransmitters and Psychiatrics: Steps toward Physiological Mental Health Monitoring
Journal of the Electrochemical Society
Marjon Zamani, Tatum Wilhelm and Ariel L. Furst

Posted in Disease Diagnostics
Surface Requirements for Optimal Biosensing with Disposable Gold Electrodes

2021 November

Surface Requirements for Optimal Biosensing with Disposable Gold Electrodes
ACS Measurement Science AU
Marjon Zamani, Victoria Yang, Lizi Maziashvili, Gang Fan, Catherine M. Klapperich, and Ariel L. Furst

Posted in Disease Diagnostics
Strategies for Engineering Affordable Technologies for Point-of-Care Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases

2021 October

Strategies for Engineering Affordable Technologies for Point-of-Care Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases
Accounts of Chemical Research
Marjon Zamani, Ariel L. Furst, and Catherine M. Klapperich

Posted in Disease Diagnostics
Bioelectrochemical platforms to study and detect emerging pathogens

2021 August

Bioelectrochemical platforms to study and detect emerging pathogens
MRS Bulletin
Mary C. Machado, Marjon Zamani, Susan Daniel & Ariel L. Furst

Posted in Disease Diagnostics
Electrochemical Strategy for Low-Cost Viral Detection

Featured in this ACS Central Science First Reaction

2021 May

Electrochemical Strategy for Low-Cost Viral Detection
ACS Central Science
Marjon Zamani, James M. Robson, Andy Fan, Michael S. Bono Jr., Ariel L. Furst, and Catherine M. Klapperich

Posted in Disease Diagnostics
Electrochemical Sensors to Detect Bacterial Foodborne Pathogens

2021 May

Electrochemical Sensors to Detect Bacterial Foodborne Pathogens
ACS Sensors
Lauren M. Castle, Daena A. Schuh, Erin E. Reynolds, and Ariel L. Furst

Posted in Disease Diagnostics
Covalent capture and electrochemical quantification of pathogenic E. coli

2021 March

Covalent capture and electrochemical quantification of pathogenic E. coli
Chemical Communications
Sarah H. Klass, Laura E. Sofen, Zachary F. Hallberg, Tahoe A. Fiala, Alexandra V. Ramsey, Nicholas S. Dolan, Matthew B. Francis and Ariel L. Furst

Posted in Disease Diagnostics
Electrochemical Diagnostics for Bacterial Infectious Diseases

2020 June

Electrochemical Diagnostics for Bacterial Infectious Diseases
ACS Infectious Diseases
Amruta A. Karbelkar, Ariel L. Furst

Posted in Disease Diagnostics

2019 December

Perspective—Electrochemical Sensors to Monitor Endocrine Disrupting Pollutants
Journal of the Electrochemical Society
Laura E. Sofen, Ariel L. Furst

Posted in Disease Diagnostics

2019 December

Strand Displacement Strategies for Biosensor Applications
ScienceDirect
Yifan Dai, Ariel Furst, Chung Chiun Liu

Posted in Disease Diagnostics

2019 April

Toward multimarker and functional assays from crude cell lysates: controlling spacing and signal amplification in DNA-CT–based bioelectrochemical devices
Current Opinion in Electrochemistry
Furst, A. L.; Muren, N. B.; Hill, M. G.

Posted in Disease Diagnostics

2018 December

Impedance-Based Detection of Bacteria
Chemical Reviews
Furst, A. L.; Francis, M. B.

Posted in Disease Diagnostics

Featured in this ACS Central Science First Reaction

2017 January

Quantifying Hormone Disruptors with an Engineered Bacterial Biosensor
ACS Central Science
Furst, A. L.; Hoepker, A. C.; Francis, M. B.

Posted in Disease Diagnostics

Featured in this ScienceDaily article

2015 July

DNA Electrochemistry Shows DNMT1 Methyltransferase Hyperactivity in Colorectal Tumors
Chemistry & Biology
Furst, A. L.; Barton, J. K.

Posted in Disease Diagnostics

2014 June

A Multiplexed, Two-Electrode Platform for Biosensing Based on DNA-Mediated Charge Transport
Langmuir
Furst, A. L.; Hill, M. G.; Barton, J. K.

Posted in Disease Diagnostics

2014 December

DNA Sensors using DNA Charge Transport Chemistry
Chapter in DNA in Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanotechnology
Barton, J. K.; Furst, A. L.; Grodick, M. A., edited by E. Stultz and G. H. Clever

Posted in Disease Diagnostics

2014 December

Electrocatalysis in DNA Sensors
Polyhedron
Furst, A. L.; Hill, M. G.; Barton, J. K.

Posted in Disease Diagnostics

Featured in this Science-Business eXchange article

2014 October

Label-free electrochemical detection of human methyltransferase from tumors
PNAS
Furst, A. L.; Muren, N. B.; Hill, M. G.; Barton, J. K.

Posted in Disease Diagnostics

2013 December

Electrochemical Patterning and Detection of DNA Arrays on a Two-Electrode Platform
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Furst, A. L.; Landefeld, S.; Hill, M. G.; Barton, J. K.

Posted in Disease Diagnostics

2013 December

DNA-Modified Electrodes Fabricated Using Copper-Free Click Chemistry for Enhanced Protein Detection
Langmuir
Furst, A. L.; Hill, M. G.; Barton, J. K.

Posted in Disease Diagnostics

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