title: The birth of protein electrochemistry.
abstract: The results from a final-year undergraduate project led to an $876M sale of a spin-out company 19 years later: the 1977 communication from Mark Eddowes and Allen Hill seeded the rich field of protein electrochemistry, the technology that underpins commercial glucose biosensors.
authors.affiliation: School of Materials and Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 7DN, UK. christopher.blanford@manchester.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Christopher F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Blanford
mesh_terms: D015374:Biosensing Techniques; D055664:Electrochemical Techniques; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000639:trends*; D004566:Electrodes; D004579:Electron Transport; D004798:Enzymes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D005947:Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004798:Enzymes; D011506:Proteins; D005947:Glucose