Full Description
Lateral Flow Assays: From Bench to Market provides a detailed understanding of lateral flow assays (LFAs), the technology behind them, and their potential uses. The book opens with a discussion of the key elements of LFAs before covering a range of different LFA types, including aptamer-based and SERS-based LFAs. Applications across the biosciences and beyond are explored, such as virus detection, including Covid-19, bacteria detection, hormonal detection, and cancer biomarkers. LFAs for the detection of narcotics, environmental pollutants, food additives, allergens, toxins, and metabolites are also explored. The book then discusses commercialization aspects of LFAs before looking to future developments.
This book offers a complete overview of these biosensors and is an ideal reference for researchers and lab technicians across the biomedical sciences who work with these devices. It is also relevant to researchers and practitioners in food chemistry, the environmental industry, and pharmaceutical companies, in addition to those involved in the development of lateral flow devices.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Novel Nanoparticles used in Lateral Flow assays
3. Lateral Flow assays using Aptamers
4. SERS based Lateral Flow assays
5. Reader systems used for Lateral Flow assays
6. Lateral Flow assays for virus detection
7. Lateral flow assays for bacteria detection
8. Lateral Flow assays for hormones
9. Lateral Flow assays for cancer biomarkers
10. Lateral Flow assays for narcotics
11. Lateral Flow assays for environmental pollutants
12. Lateral Flow assays in food analysis
13. Lateral Flow assays for toxins, metabolites, and beyond
14. Commercialization of Lateral Flow assays
15. Conclusion and Future Prospects
