Standoff detection of explosives and buried landmines using fluorescent bacterial sensor cells

Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Volumn 79, Issue , 2016, Pages 784-788

  Kabessa, Yossef ^a   Eyal, Ori ^a   Bar On, Ofer ^a   Korouma, Victor ^a   Yagur Kroll, Sharon ^a   Belkin, Shimshon ^a   Agranat, Aharon J ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacterial whole cell biosensors; Explosives; Fluorescence; GFP reporter gene; Remote sensing; Standoff detection

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; FLUORESCENCE; LANDMINE DETECTION; LOCKS (FASTENERS); REMOTE SENSING; SOLUTIONS;

BACKGROUND ILLUMINATION; EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS; GFP REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; STANDOFF DETECTION; WHOLE-CELL BIOSENSORS;

EXPLOSIVES;

AGAR; EXPLOSIVE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; 2,4-DINITROTOLUENE; NITROBENZENE DERIVATIVE; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANALYSIS; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL SENSOR CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSENSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONICS; ENCAPSULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; ILLUMINATION; IMMOBILIZATION; LANDMINE; LIQUID CULTURE; MICROENVIRONMENT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; SAMPLING; STANDOFF DETECTION; VAPOR; WEAPON; WHOLE CELL; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; REPORTER GENE; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; DINITROBENZENES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPLOSIVE AGENTS; FLUORESCENCE; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84953911791     PISSN: 09565663     EISSN: 18734235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2016.01.011     Document Type: Article

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