How to Use biosensor in a Sentence

biosensor

noun

• Now, a team in Japan has married a tiny, effective solar cell to a flexible biosensor to create a heartbeat monitor that powers itself.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2018
• The device is equipped with a biosensor that does two things.
  — Alice Park, Time, 13 July 2023
• Getting any kind of biosensor for the coronavirus to a mass market will take money—lots of it.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2020
• Simmers and colleagues are now trying to use the membrane on biosensors.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 14 May 2018
• The new biosensor can detect a variety of pathogens in blood, plasma, soil, water and urine.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2017
• This would make the sensor useful in biosensors to detect diseases, for instance.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2023
• That’s enough to power the biosensors as well as wireless communication.
  — Wei Gao, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2020
• After about five minutes, a biosensor—made of an electrode attached to an immune system protein from a llama—reads the solution.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
• Several teams are working on biosensor capsules that are swallowed.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
• Her poem, inscribed on a silk biosensor intended for implantation, can be viewed through a microscope.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• In the immediate future, the scientists envision the Retro-Cascorder as a bit of additional gear that could turn a bacterium into a biosensor.
  — Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
• This booming industry also helped Oura, the health technology company that created the Oura Ring (a biosensor sleep tracker), become a unicorn in 2020.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Researchers not involved with the work identified several improvements that are needed for the biosensor to be clinically useful.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 24 May 2018
• The CubeSat’s biosensor technology will monitor growth and metabolic activity of the yeast cells throughout the journey.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
• And unlike so many clinical advances with ambiguous timelines for real-world implementation, researchers say their biosensor, which costs less than a penny, can be deployed around the world right now.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2017
• Pizzi was one of about 50 runners at Boston wearing a prototype of Nix, an inexpensive and disposable biosensor that analyzes sweat on the skin and gives real-time data on fluid loss and electrolyte levels.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 1 July 2019
• The miniature biosensor would be placed just beneath the skin surface and be powered wirelessly by a wearable device, such as a smartwatch or patch, the University of California, San Diego engineers explained.
  — Healthday, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Now, thanks to Nili Ostrov at Columbia University, baker’s yeast is about to begin yet another career—as a biosensor for detecting cholera and other diseases.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 18 July 2017
• Fiorenzo Omenetto, a biomedical engineer at Tufts University, may have the solution: a tiny flexible biosensor wrapped in silk and gold.
  — Jeremy Jacquot, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2010
• These biosensors have been modified to recognize a particular molecule of interest, such as the blood component heme.
  — Karen Kaplan, latimes.com, 25 May 2018
• Rios Cantu, an engineering student from Monterrey, explained that the biosensors map the surface of the breast and can determine thermal conductivity by specific zones.
  — Fox News, 1 May 2017
• Researchers still need to investigate the bandage's biosensor durability in human patients' chronic wounds.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 28 June 2023
• For more than a decade, Snyder, a biology researcher at Stanford University, has been using consumer wearables to determine whether these kinds of biosensors—and the data collected from them—can help track the onset of infections or illness.
  — Lauren Goode, Wired, 14 Apr. 2020
• The biosensor was modified with a synthetic antibody for the specific recognition of the exosome biomarkers, which were extracted directly from human lung-cancer cells.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2023
• Dissolvable cameras could monitor the biosensor readouts.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2015
• Researchers have shown that nanoparticles can be used to create supersensitive biosensors able to detect cancer cells and even identify molecules that indicate someone is at increased risk for cancer.
  — Erika Hayasaki, Newsweek, 21 July 2015
• Bode’s lab has funded early-stage research projects that used milk to study treatments for cardiovascular disease, understand the intestinal microbiome and develop a biosensor that can detect certain compounds in milk in minutes.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• Wearable biosensors are also being tested in navigation systems, biochemistry fields, and in the development of advanced textiles that can communicate, transform, conduct energy, and even grow.
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2018
• Add information from connected devices, biosensors and digital surveys on dosing and compliance, and the data flow becomes so immense that assessing its value becomes its own priority.
  — Renee Morad, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2018
• In addition to temperature and pH, the bandage's biosensor monitors levels of ammonium, glucose, lactate and uric acid; together these measurements provide information about inflammation, infection and stage of healing.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 28 June 2023

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024