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Record W4407026401 · doi:10.1016/j.sbsr.2025.100754

Advanced sensing strategies for detecting zinc levels and zinc-related biomarkers in cancer pathogenesis

2025· article· en· W4407026401 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueSensing and Bio-Sensing Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNursing
TopicTrace Elements in Health
Canadian institutionsPolytechnique MontréalMcGill University
FundersFonds de Recherche du Québec - SantéNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsZincPathogenesisCancerMedicineBiomarkerComputational biologyBiologyInternal medicineMaterials scienceGeneticsMetallurgy

Abstract

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Zinc and zinc-containing proteins are highlighted for their significant contributions to various physiological functions, with abnormal levels of these elements being associated with a wide range of diseases, including cancer, despite zinc itself not being considered a biomarker. Combining the detection of zinc and zinc-related biomarkers is an avenue to reliable and cost-effective monitoring. In this context, electrochemical sensing methods offer considerable advantages due to their rapid, simple, and cost-effective detection compared to standard methods. Recent advancements in electrochemical sensors have enhanced sensitivity for detecting low concentrations of zinc-related biomarkers present in early-stage cancer. Furthermore, incorporating carbon, gold, and bismuth nanostructures into sensor recognition elements enhances the capability for rapid, precise, and specific quantification of these biomarkers. This review discusses key zinc-related biomarkers, zinc levels and their roles in cancer development and progression, along with a comprehensive analysis of recent strategies to enhance the sensitivity and specificity of electrochemical sensors for zinc and zinc-related biomarkers.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.709
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.085
GPT teacher head0.428
Teacher spread0.344 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it