How Nanotechnology Has Helped Develop Better Bioassays?
Since nanotechnology is an area of knowledge that deal with very small tiny particle it has helped significantly to develop better bioassays. Usually, a nanoparticle present in the test will selectively bind to the biomolecule and make it “visible”, that is, detectable. Using recent development in nanotechnology the bioassays have the following advantages: • New nano bioassays have become more sensitive. They are able to detect diseases or potential “markers” of disease at lower levels of concentration of the biomolecule. • The new assays with nano particles are easy to perform. No need to long analytical tests with long periods of lab analysis • New diseases are been able to be detected with new nanobioassays. • Multiple disease-detecting nano particles can be assembled in one bioassay so as to reduce the number of bioassays to be performed in each patient.
