Biosensors in medicine

The bio-device was developed in partnership with several research institutions in the country. It is composed of electrical circuits printed on small electrodes, on which a set of antigenic proteins isolated from the protozoan Leishmania amazonensis, one of the species that cause the tegumentary form of leishmaniasis in Brazil, or Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas disease, is deposited. affects around 8 million people worldwide each year, according to WHO. If the antibody of interest is present in the analyzed sample, the connection between it and the antigenic protein produces a change in the electric response of the electrode, accusing the presence of the pathogen.