Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the United States, trailing only heart
disease in incidence. Despite significant worldwide investment in research, cancer remains …

In 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an important report entitled
“Innovation/Stagnation: Challenge and Opportunity on the Critical Path to New Medical …

IVD test is a crucial component of clinical care that performs a diagnostic test on biological
samples that have been taken from a living body, such as blood, urine, and tissue.(1) Such …

Development of biosensing platforms plays a key role in research settings for identification
of biomarkers and in clinical applications for diagnostics. Biosensors based on nucleic acids …

1. INTRODUCTION Detection of chemical and biological agents plays a fundamental role in
biomedical, forensic and environmental sciences 1− 4 as well as in anti bioterrorism …

Nucleic acid therapeutics are limited by inefficient delivery to target tissues and cells and by
an incomplete understanding of how nanoparticle structure affects biodistribution to off …

Single-layer transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets, including MoS2, TiS2, and TaS2,
are used as novel sensing platforms for sensitive and selective detection of DNA, based on …

The wide variety of core materials available, coupled with tunable surface properties, make
nanoparticles an excellent platform for a broad range of biological and biomedical …

We have investigated the variables that influence DNA coverage on gold nanoparticles. The
effects of salt concentration, spacer composition, nanoparticle size, and degree of sonication …

Color is everything: Hg 2+ in aqueous media is detected by the formation of thymidine-Hg 2+-
thymidine coordination complexes, which raises the melting temperature of the DNA …