Highly sensitive immunodiagnostics at the point of care employing alternative recognition elements and smartphones: hype, trend, or revolution?

Immunodiagnostic tests performed at the point of care (POC) today usually employ antibodies for biorecognition and are read out either visually or with specialized equipment. Availability of alternative biorecognition elements with promising features as well as smartphone-based approaches for signal readout, however, challenge the described established configuration in terms of analytical performance and practicability. Assessing these developments’ clinical relevance and their impact on POC immunodiagnostics is demanding. The first part of this review will therefore give an overview on suitable diagnostic biosensors based on alternative recognition elements (such as nucleic acid-based aptamers or engineered binding proteins) and exemplify advantages and drawbacks of these biomolecules on the base of selected assays. The second part of the review then focuses on smartphone-connected diagnostics and discusses the indispensable considerations required for successful future clinical POCT implementation. Together, the joint depiction of two of the most innovative and exciting developments in the field will enable the reader to cast a glance into the distant future of POC immunodiagnostics.

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