Guest Editorial Special Issue on Magnetic Sensing Systems for Biomedical Application

Magnetic field sensors have been of great interest due to their possible applications in biomedical application over the past decade. Miniaturizing magnetic based sensing systems for biological and chemical assays offer a prospect to modernize the large laboratory instruments into easy-to-use lab-on-a-chip platforms, bringing down the cost, size, and sample use by orders of magnitude. Such sensing systems need to provide fast response, high-sensitivity, and low-cost to be considered viable products. These devices can serve as high-performance diagnostic platforms in a wide range of applications from home healthcare over epidemic disease control and environmental monitoring to biothreat detection.