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 …

Past, present, and future of CRISPR genome editing technologies

M Pacesa, O Pelea, M **ek - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Genome editing has been a transformative force in the life sciences and human medicine,
offering unprecedented opportunities to dissect complex biological processes and treat the …

A one-pot isothermal Cas12-based assay for the sensitive detection of microRNAs

H Yan, Y Wen, Z Tian, N Hart, S Han… - Nature biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
The use of microRNAs as clinical cancer biomarkers is hindered by the absence of accurate,
fast and inexpensive assays for their detection in biofluids. Here we report a one-step and …

Smartphone-based platforms implementing microfluidic detection with image-based artificial intelligence

B Wang, Y Li, M Zhou, Y Han, M Zhang, Z Gao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The frequent outbreak of global infectious diseases has prompted the development of rapid
and effective diagnostic tools for the early screening of potential patients in point-of-care …

Lateral flow test engineering and lessons learned from COVID-19

J Budd, BS Miller, NE Weckman, D Cherkaoui… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The acceptability and feasibility of large-scale testing with lateral flow tests (LFTs) for clinical
and public health purposes has been demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic. LFTs …

Topological barrier to Cas12a activation by circular DNA nanostructures facilitates autocatalysis and transforms DNA/RNA sensing

F Deng, Y Li, B Yang, R Sang, W Deng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Control of CRISPR/Cas12a trans-cleavage is crucial for biosensor development. Here, we
show that small circular DNA nanostructures which partially match guide RNA sequences …

The CRISPR-Cas toolbox and gene editing technologies

G Liu, Q Lin, S **, C Gao - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
The emergence of CRISPR-Cas systems has accelerated the development of gene editing
technologies, which are widely used in the life sciences. To improve the performance of …

Microfluidic space coding for multiplexed nucleic acid detection via CRISPR-Cas12a and recombinase polymerase amplification

Z Xu, D Chen, T Li, J Yan, J Zhu, T He, R Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Fast, inexpensive, and multiplexed detection of multiple nucleic acids is of great importance
to human health, yet it still represents a significant challenge. Herein, we propose a nucleic …

Asymmetric CRISPR enabling cascade signal amplification for nucleic acid detection by competitive crRNA

J Moon, C Liu - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Nucleic acid detection powered by CRISPR technology provides a rapid, sensitive, and
deployable approach to molecular diagnostics. While exciting, there remain challenges …

Nanozyme-catalysed CRISPR assay for preamplification-free detection of non-coding RNAs

M Broto, MM Kaminski, C Adrianus, N Kim… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR-based diagnostics enable specific sensing of DNA and RNA biomarkers
associated with human diseases. This is achieved through the binding of guide RNAs to a …