Noble metals comprise any of several metallic chemical elements that are outstandingly
resistant to corrosion and oxidation, even at elevated temperatures. This group is not strictly …

The COVID-19 pandemic has created huge damage to society and brought panic around
the world. Such panic can be ascribed to the seemingly deceptive features of COVID-19 …

The transmission of dengue virus (DENV) from an infected Aedes mosquito to a human,
causes illness ranging from mild dengue fever to fatal dengue shock syndrome. The similar …

Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) with controlled geometrical, optical, and surface chemical
properties are the subject of intensive studies and applications in biology and medicine. To …

This critical review provides an overall survey of the basic concepts and up-to-date literature
results concerning the very promising use of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) for medicinal …

Lateral flow (immuno) assays are currently used for qualitative, semiquantitative and to
some extent quantitative monitoring in resource-poor or non-laboratory environments …

Endocrine diseases are the fifth most common cause of death and have a considerable
impact on society given that they induce long-term morbidity in patients. For many decades …

Current point-of-care lateral flow immunoassays, such as the home pregnancy test, rely on
proteins as detection units (eg antibodies) to sense for analytes. Glycans play a fundamental …

A portable fluorescence biosensor with rapid and ultrasensitive response for protein
biomarker has been built up with quantum dots and a lateral flow test strip. The superior …

This paper describes the use of a modified x, y-plotter to generate hydrophilic channels by
printing a solution of hydrophobic polymer (pol (dimethylsiloxane; PDMS) dissolved in …