DNA, a genetic material, has been employed in different scientific directions for various
biological applications as driven by DNA nanotechnology in the past decades, including …

DNA is traditionally known as a central genetic biomolecule in living systems. From an
alternative perspective, DNA is a versatile molecular building-block for the construction of …

Over the past decade, we have seen rapid advances in applying nanotechnology in
biomedical areas including bioimaging, biodetection, and drug delivery. As an emerging …

Chemotherapy is currently one of the most effective ways to treat cancer. However,
traditional chemotherapy faces several obstacles to clinical trials, such as poor …

Developing powerful, simple and low-cost DNA amplification techniques is of great
significance to bioanalysis and biomedical research. Thus far, many signal amplification …

Self-assembly is the process of association of individual units of a material into highly
arranged/ordered structures/patterns. It imparts unique properties to both inorganic and …

Functional nucleic acid (NA)-based drugs have a broad range of applications since they
allow the alteration and control of gene/protein expression patterns in cells. In principle …

Researchers have worked for many decades to master the rules of biomolecular design that
would allow artificial biopolymer complexes to self-assemble and function similarly to the …

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 …

Hydrogels are crosslinked hydrophilic polymers that can absorb a large amount of water. By
their hydrophilic, biocompatible and highly tunable nature, hydrogels can be tailored for …