Despite the many advancements in the pharmaceutical and medical fields and the
development of numerous antimicrobial drugs aimed to suppress and destroy pathogenic …

Viral infections can cause serious diseases for humans and animals. Accurate and early
detection of viruses is often crucial for clinical diagnosis and therapy. Aptamers are mostly …

Nucleic acids play a central role in all domains of life, either as genetic blueprints or as
regulators of various biochemical pathways. The 826chemical makeup of ribonucleic acid …

Today, the treatment of bacterial infections is a major challenge, due to growing rate of
multidrug-resistant bacteria, complication of treatment and increased healthcare costs …

During an epidemic or pandemic, the primary task is to rapidly develop precise diagnostic
approaches and effective therapeutics. Oligonucleotide aptamer-based pathogen detection …

This paper describes a novel strategy based on fluorescence energy transfer (FRET) with
green synthesis of carbon quantum dots (CQDs) and gold nanoparticles (GNPs) for the …

DNA switches are ideally suited for numerous nanotechnological applications, and
increasing efforts are being directed toward their engineering. In this review, we discuss how …

Food safety is a major issue to protect public health and a key challenge is to find detection
methods for identification of hazards in food. Food borne infections affects millions of people …

Aptamers, referring to single-stranded DNA or RNA molecules can specifically recognize
and bind to their targets. Based on their excellent specificity, sensitivity, high affinity, and …

The epidemic of infectious diseases caused by contagious pathogens is a life-threatening
hazard to the entire human population worldwide. A timely and accurate diagnosis is the …