Metal ions are essential to many chemical, biological, and environmental processes. In the
past two decades, many DNA-based metal sensors have emerged. While the main …

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 …

The creation of biosensors has given rise to a revolution in many fields like medical and
health, food inspection, environmental monitoring, and so on. The simplicity, convenience …

Aptamers have been identified against various targets as a type of chemical or nucleic acid
ligand by systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) with high …

Being a versatile class of functional dyes, phthalocyanines exhibit a range of intriguing
properties enabling them to find practical applications in various disciplines. In the field of …

Mounting evidence supports the presence of biologically relevant G‐quadruplexes in single‐
cell organisms, but the existence of endogenous G‐quadruplex structures in mammalian …

Nucleic acid aptamers are small sequences of DNA made via in vitro selection techniques to
bind targets with high affinity and specificity. The term aptamer derives from the Latin, aptus …

Breakthrough advances in chemistry and biology over the last two decades have vastly
expanded the repertoire of nucleic acid structure and function with potential application in …

We demonstrate highly sensitive and selective potassium ion detection against excess
sodium ions in water, by modulating the interaction between the G-quadruplex-forming …

This work demonstrates the significant fluorescence enhancement of thioflavin T (ThT) when
binding to G-quadruplexes possessing hybrid structures by using UV–vis absorption …