Integration of the ligase chain reaction with the CRISPR-Cas12a system for homogeneous, ultrasensitive, and visual detection of microRNA

X Yan, J Zhang, Q Jiang, D Jiao, Y Cheng - Analytical Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
The ligase chain reaction (LCR), as a classic nucleic acid amplification technique, is popular
in the detection of DNA and RNA due to its simplicity, powerfulness, and high specificity …

An exploration of nucleic acid liquid biopsy using a glucose meter

Y Gu, TT Zhang, ZF Huang, SW Hu, W Zhao, JJ Xu… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of non-invasive techniques for the diagnosis of cancer, characterization of
mutation and monitoring treatment response could greatly reduce the morbidity and mortality …

A simple modification increases specificity and efficiency of asymmetric PCR

Z Tolnai, Á Harkai, Z Szeitner, ÉN Scholz, K Percze… - Analytica Chimica …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although various methods have been developed to suffice the oligonucleotide demand of
molecular biology laboratories, in vitro production of high-purity ssDNAs remains to be a …

Transient hybridization directed nanoflare for single-molecule miRNA imaging

L Li, Y Yu, C Wang, Q Han, X Su - Analytical chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Accurate quantifications of cellular miRNAs are important not only for accelerating them
becoming reliable diagnostics biomarkers but also for deeply understanding their influence …

Digital quantitative detection of serum circulating miRNAs using dual-enhanced magnetobiosensors based on cascaded nucleic acid circuits

C Liu, Y An, Y Zhang, X Li, Q Xue… - Chemical Communications, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The tough challenges for the convenient and quantitative determination of circulating
miRNAs (cmiRNAs) in the peripheral blood are low abundance, high interference and lack …

Toehold-mediated ligation-free rolling circle amplification enables sensitive and rapid imaging of messenger RNAs in situ in cells

J Chen, Y Zhang, D Chen, T Wang, W Yin… - Analytica Chimica …, 2021 - Elsevier
In situ analysis of tumor-related messenger RNAs (mRNAs) is significant in identifying
cancer cells at the genetic level in the early stage. Rolling circle amplification (RCA)-based …

Imaging of intracellular-specific microRNA in tumor cells by symmetric exponential amplification-assisted fluorescence in situ hybridization

J Chen, W Yin, Y Ma, H Yang, Y Zhang, M Xu… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a symmetric exponential amplification-assisted fluorescence in situ hybridization
(SEXPAR-FISH) strategy for imaging intracellular-specific microRNAs (miRNAs) in cells. The …

Functional three helix molecular beacon fluorescent “turn-on” probe for simple and sensitive simultaneous detection of two HIV DNAs

Y Han, F Zhang, H Gong, C Cai - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2019 - Elsevier
A fluorescent biosensing strategy based on three helix molecular beacons (tMBs) for
simultaneous simple and rapid detection of HIV related genes was developed. This tMBs …

Substrate specificity-enabled terminal protection for direct quantification of circulating MicroRNA in patient serums

J Li, W Fu, Z Wang, Z Dai - Chemical Science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Currently, reported affinity pairings still lack in diversity, and thus terminal protection relying
on steric hindrance is restricted in designing nucleic acid-based analytical systems. In this …

Rhesus blood typing within a few seconds by packing-enhanced nanoscattering on individual erythrocytes

IS Chen, SJ Davis, ML Chang, CH Hung… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A method for the ABO and Rhesus (Rh) blood group typing from individual erythrocytes is
proposed in this study. Blood-group-specific antibodies immobilized to gold nanoparticles …