Global Health Diagnostics – Addressing Animal and Crop Health
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission deadline
Biosensors have made great progress in improving human health, providing promising options for early illness detection, monitoring, and management, both in resource-constrained environments and wealthier regions of the world. However, more limited focus has been dedicated so far to detection and monitoring of zoonoses and crop pathogens. Given the current climate change emergency, and the repercussions it will bring on food and water resources, especially in resource-limited regions of the world, it is imperative that new biosensors are conceptualized and implemented to address these key global health issues. It is only by increasing the availability of biosensors that specifically detect zoonotic pathogens and diagnose crop diseases that true global health can be achieved.
This Collection welcomes research articles and reviews that focus on crop and animal health, including but not limited to the following topics:
1. Innovative Biosensor Technologies
- Electrical and Electrochemical Biosensors
- Optical Biosensors
- Thermal Biosensors
2. Point-of-Care Diagnostics
- Portable Biosensors
- Lab-on-a-Chip
- Wearable Biosensors
3. Disease-Specific Applications
- Virus Detection
- Bacteria Detection
- Parasite Detection
Manuscripts are welcome that focus on either zoonotic or crop pathogens, with particular interest on detection methods that address organism-specific features (e.g., the cell wall in plant cells). Critical reviews that highlight the key issues and future needs of biosensors with the purpose or effectively directing future research are particularly welcome.
Editors
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Laura Fabris, PhD
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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Guillermo C. BAZAN, PhD
Institute for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science (IDMxS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Samuel Sia, PhD
Columbia University, USA
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Ramon Alvarez Puebla, PhD
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
