The biological applications of DNA nanomaterials: current challenges and future directions

W Ma, Y Zhan, Y Zhang, C Mao, X **e… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] DNA tetrahedral nanostructures for the biomedical application and spatial orientation of biomolecules

W Wang, M Lin, W Wang, Z Shen, ZS Wu - Bioactive Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
DNA not only plays a vital role in nature as fundamental hereditary material for storing
genetic material, but also serves as well-defined functional material, for example, building …

Biosensors made of synthetic functional nucleic acids toward better human health

EM McConnell, I Cozma, D Morrison, Y Li - Analytical Chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
The invention of the in vitro selection technique, or SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands
by EXponential enrichment), in the early 1990s, identified single-stranded (ss) nucleic acid …

Structural DNA nanotechnology at the nexus of next-generation bio-applications: challenges and perspectives

S Kosara, R Singh, D Bhatia - Nanoscale Advances, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
DNA nanotechnology has significantly progressed in the last four decades, creating nucleic
acid structures widely used in various biological applications. The structural flexibility …

Branched hybridization chain reaction and tetrahedral DNA-based trivalent aptamer powered SERS sensor for ultra-highly sensitive detection of cancer-derived …

X Liu, J Zhang, Z Chen, X He, C Yan, H Lv… - Biosensors and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Exosomes have emerged as a promising noninvasive biomarker for early cancer diagnosis
due to their ability to carry specific bioinformation related to cancer cells. However, accurate …

Advances on aptamers against protozoan parasites

JD Ospina-Villa, C López-Camarillo… - Genes, 2018 - mdpi.com
Aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA sequences with a unique three-dimensional
structure that allows them to recognize a particular target with high affinity. Although their …

Microfluidic technology for nucleic acid aptamer evolution and application

LA Fraser, YW Cheung, AB Kinghorn… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The intersection of microfluidics and aptamer technologies holds particular promise for rapid
progress in a plethora of applications across biomedical science and other areas. Here, the …

Y-Shaped Backbone-Rigidified DNA Tiles for the Construction of Supersized Nondeformable Tetrahedrons for Precise Cancer Therapies

W Wang, M Lin, YR Chen, W Wang, J Lv… - Analytical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
While engineered DNA nanoframeworks have been extensively exploited for delivery of
diagnostic and therapeutic regents, DNA tiling-based DNA frameworks amenable to …

Optimized aptamer functionalization for enhanced anticancer efficiency in vivo

MC Jiang, HB Liu, JQ Wang, S Li, Z Zheng… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nucleic acid aptamers (Apt) are RNA or DNA fragments that can bind specifically to a target
molecule or to a target substrate with great affinity, thus has attracted great attention for …