Porous silicon (PSi) has emerged as a highly versatile material for biosensing and optical applications, owing to its high internal surface area, tunable pore sizes and exceptional optical properties.

Biosensing has been valuable for detecting biomolecules, including novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), but achieving both high sensitivity and rapidity has been challenging. Rapid and high-sensitivity ...

Researchers at the Laboratory of Bionanophotonic Systems (BIOS) at EPFL's School of Engineering have developed an optical biosensor that slashes the sepsis diagnosis time from several days to just a ...

Dr. Ho Sang Jung and his research team from the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) have developed an optical biosensor capable ...

Biosensors are important diagnostic devices that have to be quick, cheap, and easy to use. It's also beneficial if biosensors are compact and autonomous so they can be used by anyone from doctors down ...

Jun 26, 2025 Scientists build first self-illuminating biosensor Engineers have harnessed quantum physics to detect the presence of biomolecules without the need for an external light source, ...

In a new study published in Emergent Materials, researchers show how microfluidic systems integrated with quantum dot-based affinity biosensors can serve as a valuable platform to rapidly and ...

For the first time, researchers have used a chip-based sensor with an integrated laser to detect very low levels of a cancer protein biomarker in a urine sample. The new technology is more sensitive ...

A project launched at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) intends to develop a point-of-care platform for rapid diagnosis and monitoring of coronavirus. The CONVAT project ...

Cancer is often most dangerous when it hides in the early stages. Detecting it before symptoms appear is one of the biggest challenges in modern medicine. Now, researchers from the Korea Institute of ...

Illustration of the self-illuminating biosensor: A metasurface of gold nanowires drives quantum light emission and concentrates the resulting light waves to detect biomolecules. Optical biosensors use ...