The Application of Magnetic Techniques in Biosciences

By M. Šafaříková, I. Šafařík. 2001

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The idea to use magnetic techniques in biosciences is not new, but it has enjoyed a resurgence of interest especially during the last two decades. Magnetic adsorbents, carriers and modifiers can be used for the immobilization, isolation, modification, detection, determination and removal of a variety of biologically active compounds, xenobiotics, cellular components and cells. Magnetic separation and labelling have recently found many useful and interesting applications in various areas of biosciences, especially in molecular and cell biology, microbiology, biochemistry and bioanalytical chemistry. Special attention is being paid to the possible biomedical and clinical applications. Currently, the magnetic selective separation, represents the most often used magnetic technique. It can facilitate or accelerate many separation and purification processes especially in heterogeneous systems. To perform a biomagnetic separation an appropriate magnetic separator and magnetic particles or other magnetic labels are needed. Several types of separators and a wide assortment of magnetic particles of different type and size (usually surface modified) are commercially available. The importance of biomagnetic (separation) techniques has increased in recent years and further development of new important applications is expected in the future. The purpose of this review is to summarise basic elements and prospects of biomagnetic techniques and to highlight possible applications in various bioscience disciplines.

Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Spectroscopy

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In Environmental Engineering

1. M. Šafaříková
2. I. Šafařík

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. M. Šafaříková
2. I. Šafařík
3. O. Philippova
4. V. Molchanov
5. Alexei R. Khokhlov
6. A. Barabanova

In Spectroscopy

1. M. Šafaříková
2. I. Šafařík

Citations in the corpus

• Magnetic polymer beads: Recent trends and developments in synthetic design and applications (2011, background): “Magnetic nano- and microparticles are of great interest for many technological applications: magnetic storage media [153], biosensing applications [154], medical applications, such as targeted drug delivery [122,155–163], contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) [164– 176], bioseparation ”
• Magnetically modified spent coffee grounds for dyes removal (2012, background): “Magnetic separation is a promising technique for adsorption of target compounds from difficult-to-handle samples [16].”
• Magnetic techniques for the isolation and purification of proteins and peptides (2004, methodology): “Examples of magnetic separations of proteins and peptides Magnetic affinity and ion-exchange separations have been successfully used in various areas, such as molecular biology, biochemistry, immunochemistry, enzymology, analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry etc [26-29].”