Metal ions are essential to many chemical, biological, and environmental processes. In the
past two decades, many DNA-based metal sensors have emerged. While the main …

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

Exposure to even very low levels of lead, cadmium, and mercury ions is known to cause
neurological, reproductive, cardiovascular, and developmental disorders, which are more …

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 …

Increasing global warming and eutrophication have led to frequent outbreaks of
cyanobacteria blooms in freshwater. Cyanobacteria blooms cause the death of aquatic and …

Heavy metal pollution is one of the most serious concerns to human health because these
substances are toxic and retained by the ecological system. Many efforts have been taken …

A Pb2+-driven DNA molecular device which is constructed based on a DNA duplex−
quadruplex exchange is utilized for the highly selective and sensitive detection of Pb2+. The …

Metal ion sensors are an important yet challenging field in analytical chemistry. Despite
much effort, only a limited number of metal ion sensors are available for practical use …

Stimuli‐responsive designs with exogenous stimuli enable remote and reversible control of
DNA nanostructures, which break many limitations of static nanostructures and inspired …

An effective dual-DNAzyme-based unimolecular probe design employing intramolecular
signal transduction is demonstrated. The probe is composed of three domains: a DNA …