BioMEMS: Marrying ICs and biotech

摘要

BioMEMS (biological microelectromechanical systems), and biosensor systems in particular, will offer an important tool in the future of medicine, analytical chemistry, and environmental screening. At their heart is a biosensor module, or BioSiP (Biosensor-System-in-a-Package), in which microfluidics, transducer and a biological top layer are packaged. Together with the development of organic transducers and good immobilization techniques, this package concept is the key to the faster, smaller, cheaper biosensors the market is demanding for applications such as detecting ionic charge, neutral biochemical compounds, antigens, and DNA-sequences. Apart from pharmaceutical applications, biosensors will also be used for environmental screening, in the food and drink industry, as a follow-up to the fermentation process, in agriculture, and for military applications.