Aptamers are short oligonucleotides isolated in vitro from randomized libraries that can bind
to specific molecules with high affinity, and offer a number of advantages relative to …

Isothermal amplification of nucleic acids is a simple process that rapidly and efficiently
accumulates nucleic acid sequences at constant temperature. Since the early 1990s …

Graphene oxide (GO) is one of the most attributed materials for opening new possibilities in
the development of next generation biosensors. Due to the coexistence of hydrophobic …

Nucleic acid cleavage processes contribute to target and signal amplification, which is
critical for the development of highly sensitive assays. 1, 2 Exonucleases or endonucleases …

It has been more than two decades since aptamer and the systematic evolution of ligands by
exponential enrichment (SELEX) method were discovered by Larry Gold and Andrew …

DNA is one of the most fascinating biopolymers. Besides its central role as carrier of genetic
information and translation of the genetic code into proteins, DNA holds great promise as a …

The emergence of graphene nanosheet (GN, 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics) has recently
opened up an exciting new field in the science and technology of two-dimensional (2D) …

Graphene, whose discovery won the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics, has been a shining star in
the material science in the past few years. Owing to its interesting electrical, optical …

Terahertz (THz) radiation attracted great interest in the fields of material characterization,
nondestructive security screening, clinical diagnostics, and identification of chemicals and …

Tumor exosomes that inherit molecular markers from their parent cells are emerging as
cellular “surrogates” in cancer diagnostics. Molecular profiling and detection of exosomes …