Principles and applications of nucleic acid strand displacement reactions

FC Simmel, B Yurke, HR Singh - Chemical reviews, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Dynamic DNA nanotechnology, a subfield of DNA nanotechnology, is concerned with the
study and application of nucleic acid strand-displacement reactions. Strand-displacement …

Nucleic acid aptamers for molecular diagnostics and therapeutics: advances and perspectives

L Li, S Xu, H Yan, X Li, HS Yazd, X Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The advent of SELEX (systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment)
technology has shown the ability to evolve artificial ligands with affinity and specificity able to …

A spatially localized DNA linear classifier for cancer diagnosis

L Yang, Q Tang, M Zhang, Y Tian, X Chen, R Xu… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Molecular computing is an emerging paradigm that plays an essential role in data storage,
bio-computation, and clinical diagnosis with the future trends of more efficient computing …

Ratiometric optical nanoprobes enable accurate molecular detection and imaging

X Huang, J Song, BC Yung, X Huang… - Chemical Society …, 2018‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Exploring and understanding biological and pathological changes are of great significance
for early diagnosis and therapy of diseases. Optical sensing and imaging approaches have …

Aptamer-based targeted therapy

G Zhu, X Chen - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Precision medicine holds great promise to harness genetic and epigenetic cues for targeted
treatment of a variety of diseases, ranging from many types of cancers, neurodegenerative …

Self-adaptive single-atom catalyst boosting selective ferroptosis in tumor cells

F Cao, Y Sang, C Liu, F Bai, L Zheng, J Ren, X Qu - ACS nano, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Ferroptosis, resulting from the catastrophic accumulation of lipid reactive oxygen species
(ROS) and the inactivation of glutathione (GSH)-dependent peroxidase 4 (GPX4), has …

Self-assembling nucleic acid nanostructures functionalized with aptamers

A Krissanaprasit, CM Key, S Pontula… - Chemical …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
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 …

Cancer diagnosis with DNA molecular computation

C Zhang, Y Zhao, X Xu, R Xu, H Li, X Teng, Y Du… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Early and precise cancer diagnosis substantially improves patient survival. Recent work has
revealed that the levels of multiple microRNAs in serum are informative as biomarkers for …

Aptamer-integrated DNA nanostructures for biosensing, bioimaging and cancer therapy

HM Meng, H Liu, H Kuai, R Peng, L Mo… - Chemical Society …, 2016‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The combination of nanostructures with biomolecules leading to the generation of functional
nanosystems holds great promise for biotechnological and biomedical applications. As a …

Construction of a multiple-aptamer-based DNA logic device on live cell membranes via associative toehold activation for accurate cancer cell identification

X Chang, C Zhang, C Lv, Y Sun, M Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
The ability to accurately identify and isolate cells is the cornerstone of precise disease
diagnosis and therapies. A single-step cell identification method based on logic analysis of …