Nanotechnology's frontier in combatting infectious and inflammatory diseases: prevention and treatment

Y Huang, X Guo, Y Wu, X Chen, L Feng, N **e… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Inflammation-associated diseases encompass a range of infectious diseases and non-
infectious inflammatory diseases, which continuously pose one of the most serious threats to …

Cell-free DNA: a promising biomarker in infectious diseases

Y Hu, Y Zhao, Y Zhang, W Chen, H Zhang, X ** - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
Infectious diseases pose serious threats to public health worldwide. Conventional diagnostic
methods for infectious diseases often exhibit low sensitivity, invasiveness, and long …

Priming agents transiently reduce the clearance of cell-free DNA to improve liquid biopsies

C Martin-Alonso, S Tabrizi, K **ong, T Blewett… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Liquid biopsies enable early detection and monitoring of diseases such as cancer, but their
sensitivity remains limited by the scarcity of analytes such as cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in blood …

CRISPR-cas systems: programmable nuclease revolutionizing the molecular diagnosis

K Pandya, D Jagani, N Singh - Molecular Biotechnology, 2024 - Springer
CRISPR-Cas system has evolved as a highly preferred genetic engineering tool to perform
target gene manipulation via alteration of the guide RNA (gRNA) sequence. The ability to …

The uncharted territory of host-pathogen interaction in tuberculosis

A Ghoshal, A Verma, A Bhaskar… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) effectively manipulates the host processes to establish
the deadly respiratory disease, Tuberculosis (TB). M. tb has developed key mechanisms to …

Outlook for CRISPR-based tuberculosis assays now in their infancy

Z Huang, G Zhang, CJ Lyon, TY Hu, S Lu - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major underdiagnosed public health threat worldwide, being
responsible for more than 10 million cases and one million deaths annually. TB diagnosis …

A CRISPR-Cas12a-based assay for one-step preamplification-free detection of viral DNA

Y Chen, X Ma, L Pan, S Yang, X Chen, F Wang… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2024 - Elsevier
How to realize fM-level detection of viral DNA without target amplification is a challenge.
Traditionally, preamplification of low-abundant DNA targets is a prerequisite, which not only …

A new method for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis based on the CRISPR/Cas system

X Zhang, X He, Y Zhang, L Chen, Z Pan… - BMC Infectious …, 2023 - Springer
Object Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is a bacterium that can cause zoonoses by
aerosol transmission. Tuberculosis (TB) caused by MTB heavily burdens world public health …

CRISPR: a diagnostic tool for diseases

G Tezcan, SU Khan, KA Stolbunova, LM Shnakhova… - BioNanoScience, 2024 - Springer
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-
associated (Cas) proteins are adaptive immune system found in bacteria and archaea. This …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR/Cas12a-based biosensors for environmental monitoring and diagnostics

AK Wani, N Akhtar, C Chopra, R Singh, JC Hong… - … Technology & Innovation, 2024 - Elsevier
Contaminants, such as nucleic acids or toxic small molecules, threaten both human health
and ecosystems when they infiltrate the environment. The precise and highly sensitive …