In recent years, nanomaterials have captured the attention of scientists from a wide spectrum of domains. With their unique properties, nanomaterials offer great promise for numerous …
A wide variety of nanomaterials have emerged in recent years with advantageous properties for a plethora of therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Such applications include drug …
RM Kong, XB Zhang, Z Chen, W Tan - Small, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aptamers represent a class of single‐stranded DNA or RNA oligonucleotides that play important roles in biosensing and biomedical applications. However, aptamers can gain …
Aptamers are composed of short RNA or single‐stranded DNA sequences that, when folded into their unique 3D conformation, can bind to their targets with high specificity and affinity …
W Tan, H Wang, Y Chen, X Zhang, H Zhu, C Yang… - Trends in …, 2011 - cell.com
The active targeting of drugs in a cell-, tissue-or disease-specific manner represents a potentially powerful technology with widespread applications in medicine, including the …
Recent progress in an emerging area of designing aptamer and nanomaterial conjugates as molecular diagnostic and drug delivery agents in biomedical applications is summarized …
Q Liu, C Jin, Y Wang, X Fang, X Zhang, Z Chen… - NPG Asia …, 2014 - nature.com
Based on their unique advantages, increasing interest has been shown in the use of aptamers as target ligands for specific cancer cell recognition and targeted cancer therapy …
W Alshaer, H Hillaireau, E Fattal - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Aptamers are versatile nucleic acid-based macromolecules characterized by their high affinity and specificity to a specific target. Taking advantage of such binding properties …
E Levy-Nissenbaum, AF Radovic-Moreno… - Trends in …, 2008 - cell.com
Nucleic acid ligands, also known as aptamers, are a class of macromolecules that are being used in several novel nanobiomedical applications. Aptamers are characterized by high …