“…Furthermore, magnetic nanoparticles can be applied to carry the analytes to the transduction platform in microfluidic systems enabling simultaneous detection of different analytes (Konry et al, 2012) or to transport drugs or genes (Dobson, 2006;Kami et al, 2011), or for magnetic resonance imaging (Sun et al, 2008). Nanowires, with the characteristics of low weight with extraordinary mechanical, electrical, thermal, and multifunctional properties, have also been widely used in numerous bio-sensing applications (Curreli et al, 2005;Laocharoensuk et al, 2007;Roberts and Kelley, 2007;Shi et al, 2005;Wanekaya et al, 2006;Zhu et al, 2006). For example, some metal nanowires can be adopted in the detection of glucose (Cusma et al, 2007;Lu et al, 2007;Qu et al, 2007), cholesterol (Aravamudhan et al, 2007a;2007b), or DNA (Gao et al, 2007;Yi et al, 2010).…”