Foodborne pathogens are found mainly in various foods and have become a great threat to
human. Although traditional methods can achieve effective analytical, they are time …

Heavy metals (HMs) and rare earth elements (REEs) are used in a wide range of industrial
and technological applications, but they can also have harmful effects on the environment …

An electrochemiluminescence (ECL) aptasensor with aptamer as recognition element, N-
doped carbon dots (N-CDs) as luminophore, and DNA tetrahedral nanostructure (DTN) as …

Aptamers are synthetic nucleic acids that are developed to target with high affinity and
specificity chemical entities ranging from single ions to macromolecules and present a wide …

Advanced healthcare requires novel technologies capable of real-time sensing to monitor
acute and long-term health. The challenge relies on converting a real-time quantitative …

Visceral adipose tissue-derived serpin (vaspin) is a biomarker associated with obesity and
type 2 diabetes, both of which are prevalent and increasing in numbers worldwide …

Homocysteine (Hcy) is a non-protein sulfuric amino acid that is produced as a by-product of
methionine transmethylation. Increased levels of Hcy in human serum result in …

Conventional cancer treatments can cause serious side effects because they are not specific
to cancer cells and can damage healthy cells. Aptamers often are single-stranded …

Biofilms are key players in the pathogenesis of most of chronic infections associated with
host tissue or fluids and indwelling medical devices. These chronic infections are hard to be …

Inspired by nature, modern nanotechnology has enabled the bottom-up construction of
molecular machines and nanorobots using two different biomolecular building blocks, DNAs …