Antibodies against cyanobacterial

The use of sensor arrays should also play an important role in the future. They could be used to simultaneously give an accurate account of many different analytes and an overall result at once. For example, an array of Pz sensors coated with specific antibodies against different freshwater cyanobacterial toxins could be used to give an overall toxicity indication and also a specific result on the concentration and type of each toxin present. Incorporation of miniaturised flow cells and crystals, such as the excellent system developed by Michalzik et al. [152,153], could allow real-time monitoring directly in solution. 

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