Mao, KangZhang, HuaYang, Zhugen2024-10-242024-10-242024-09-10Mao K, Zhang H, Yang Z. (2024) Editorial: FEAST of biosensors: food, environmental, and agricultural sensing techniques. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Volume 12, September 2024, Article number 14829052296-4185https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2024.1482905https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/23114Biosensors are analytical devices that involve biological elements, such as nucleic acids, antibodies, enzymes, cells and microorganisms with a physicochemical (such as optical, electrical and mechanical) detectors. In the last 5 years the number of publications with the keyword “biosensor” is over 5,000 per year from the Web of Science and various biosensors are being designed and fabricated for high-efficiency, multiplex-functionality and high-flexibility sensing applications in the field of food, environment and agriculture. Many existing biosensors have the inherent capacity to achieve such goals; however, they require further development into and make it more easy-to-use and reduce cost without compromising the analytical performance such as sensitivity and specificity, as well as at a greater scale than heretofore possible.Electronic-eCollectionenAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/biosensorenvironmental analysisagricultural analysisfood safetyhealth31 Biological Sciences32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences3106 Industrial Biotechnology40 Engineering4003 Biomedical Engineering3206 Medical Biotechnologyagricultural analysisArticle2296-4185554028148290512