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Portable Waveguide-Based Optical Biosensor

Kocheril, Philip A. (ORCID:0000000212655931)·Lenz, Kiersten D. (ORCID:0000000278327586)·Mascareñas, David D. L.·Morales-Garcia, John E.·Anderson, Aaron S.·Mukundan, Harshini
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Rapid, on-site diagnostics allow for timely intervention and response for warfighter support, environmental monitoring, and global health needs. Portable optical biosensors are being widely pursued as a means of achieving fieldable biosensing due to the potential speed and accuracy of optical detection. We recently developed the portable engineered analytic sensor with automated sampling (PEGASUS) with the goal of developing a fieldable, generalizable biosensing platform. Here, we detail the development of PEGASUS’s sensing hardware and use a test-bed system of identical sensing hardware and software to demonstrate detection of a fluorescent conjugate at 1 nM through biotin-streptavidin chemistry.

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Kocheril, Philip A. (ORCID:0000000212655931), Lenz, Kiersten D. (ORCID:0000000278327586), Mascareñas, David D. L., Morales-Garcia, John E., Anderson, Aaron S., Mukundan, Harshini. 2022-03-25. Portable Waveguide-Based Optical Biosensor. https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12040195

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