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IFSA Newsletter (ISSN 1726-6017), No.10, October 2006 |
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1. BioMarket Trends: Biosensor Markets Outperform Expectations 2. Sensors & Transducers Magazine (e-Digest), No.10, October 2006 3. Sensors Web Portal Up-dates Briefs 4. New Recently Published MEMS and DSP Books 5. Conferences 6. Subscriber services 7. Additional Information, Comments, Suggestions
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In August 2002, Kalorama Information published the first edition of a report called “Medical and Biological Sensors and Sensor Systems: Markets, Applications and Competitors Worldwide.” Kalorama projected that the world biosensor market in 2005 would be near $2.3 billion. Revisiting this topic in 2006, the results of the second edition show an even better market picture, with actual revenues more than 25% above that projection. According to the current research, worldwide revenues for biosensors reached nearly $2.9 billion last year.
The surprising results stem from a number of unexpected developments. The most significant change in the market climate has been the breadth and depth of biosensor technology’s penetration into non-medical applications. Medical applications—especially the “killer app” of biosensors, glucose testing—have been the backbone of the biosensor industry, accounting for the majority of revenues.
More than 60% of the biosensor industry’s revenue is attributable to clinical applications including glucose, cholesterol, and coagulation monitoring. However, this percentage is down significantly from earlier projections, some of which projected medical application at more than 90% of revenues.
Surely some of the discrepancy among research findings can be attributed to the shifting definitions of what a biosensor really is. But the real changes in the market environment evolved from rapidly advancing technologies and some serious business challenges. On the technology front, advances are too numerous to fully elucidate here, but biosensor products have evolved to be more optics-based and less electrochemical than projected. And during the last four years, the direction of biosensor R&D significantly changed in response to new biotechnology innovations in biocomplementary chemistry, surface characterization, molecular markers, and nanotechnology.
Microelectronics, embedded circuits (smart sensors), microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and integrated optical MEMS have solved most sensor sensitivity problems. Also, progress in multiple sensor systems—each at different locations that communicate with one another, locate each other, and make decisions without the need for each to communicate to an external control center—may soon provide a means for simultaneously evaluating multiple markers instead of just one, which will have a major impact on clinical diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring. Microminiaturization trends will only enable these emerging technologies to expand their applications.
Steven Heffner Genetic Engineering News, Vol. 26, No.16, 15 September 2006 http://www.genengnews.com/articles/chitem.aspx?aid=1864 (continuation is here)
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2) AsiaSense 2007 - Asian Conference on Sensors, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, 5 - 7 June 2007
Introduction
AsiaSense 2007 is the 3rd Asian Conference on Sensors. It is a meeting of scientists and engineers working in the highly dynamic field of sensors research, development and application.It is organized by the Division of Analytical Science of the Kapisanang Kimika ng Pilipinas (Chemical Society of the Philippines) in cooperation with the University of Santo Tomas (Philippines) and the Philippine Federation of Chemistry Societies.
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AsiaSense 2007 is an interdisciplinary forum, encompassing all aspects of sensors research, development and application. It is devoted to sensor-related areas, including:
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