Engineering a novel self-powering electrochemical biosensor

Systems and Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 203-214

  Gu, X ^b   Trybilo M ^a   Ramsay, S ^b   Jensen, M ^b   Fulton, R ^b   Rosser, S ^b   Gilbert, D ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biosensor; Computational modelling; Genetic engineering; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958488960     PISSN: 18725325     EISSN: 18725333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11693-010-9063-2     Document Type: Article

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