Gérald Thouand - Handbook of Cell Biosensors

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A cell biosensor is, above all, a hybrid system combining biology, electronics, materials, and digital science. It is a measuring instrument that marries a biological recognition element/bioelement (here a cell) with an electronic component and has useful applications in many economic sectors.

When I started working on the subject of microbial biosensors in my laboratory, more than 20 years ago, I was faced with an exciting subject because it was highly interdisciplinary, combining biology, physics, engineering, and electronics, but also economics. All of these facets were new to me and it took a long time to gain a broader view of the subject. Of course, there were books on some specific topics or examples, and there were also excellent reviews, but there were no documents linking the major scientific aspects of biosensors to the economics, business, or pedagogy specific to this discipline.

Each part contains summaries of different topics written by leading specialists, which should stimulate interest for more in-depth reading. The introduction provides a review of the 3126 articles published since 1965 and offers an ideal bibliography of 506 references (10% most-cited articles).

I would like to thank all the authors for their excellent contributions, the Springer Nature editing team for their valuable support and patience throughout the preparation of this handbook, and, finally, the section editors for their efforts and help in bringing this book to fruition through the years over which it was conceived.

I wish you, dear reader, as much pleasure in reading this book as I had in its conception.

Grald Thouand

Editor-in-Chief