Biosensor Techniques Used for Determination of Telomerase Activity in Cancer Cells.docVIP

Sensors 2008, 8, 347-369 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 ? 2008 by MDPI /sensors Review Biosensor Techniques Used for Determination of Telomerase Activity in Cancer Cells Eliona Kulla* and Evgeny Katz Department of Chemistry Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699-5810, USA. * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kullae@ Received: 10 December 2007 / Accepted: 15 January 2008 / Published: 21 January 2008 Abstract: Measuring telomerase activity has proven successful for the determination of cancer in malignant somatic cells. Early conventional