How to Use biosensor in a Sentence

biosensor

noun

• 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
• Abbott’s new Lingo system includes a biosensor that attaches to the back of the arm and can be worn for up to 14 days.
  — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2024
• 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
• And if other diseases-causing viruses come along, the biosensor can be adjusted to detect those as well.
  — Alice Park, Time, 13 July 2023
• Lingo is part of an emerging class of consumer-friendly biosensors that people can use to learn how their bodies respond to food, exercise, sleep and stress.
  — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The company’s tiny biosensor — which is not currently FDA-approved — connects to a smartphone to offer users a plethora of health data, including blood sugar levels.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2024
• 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
• Today, athletes often have their individual sweat rates and sweat makeups tracked, either by measuring weight loss during exercise or through biosensors attached to the skin that account for fluid loss in real-time.
  — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024