Researchers at Universidad Rovira i Virgili have created a biosensor, an electrical and biological device, which is able to selectively detect the Candida albicans yeast in very small quantities.

Candida albicans is a diploid fungus (a form of yeast), which is capable of sexual reproduction but not of meiosis, and a causal agent of opportunistic oral and genital infections in humans.

“The technique uses field-effect transistors (electronic devices that contain an electrode source and a draining electrode connected to a transducer) based on carbon nanotubes and with Candida albicans-specific antibodies”, Raquel A. Villamizar, lead author of the study says.

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