DNA origami

S Dey, C Fan, KV Gothelf, J Li, C Lin, L Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biological materials are self-assembled with near-atomic precision in living cells, whereas
synthetic 3D structures generally lack such precision and controllability. Recently, DNA …

DNA functional materials assembled from branched DNA: design, synthesis, and applications

Y Dong, C Yao, Y Zhu, L Yang, D Luo… - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
DNA is traditionally known as a central genetic biomolecule in living systems. From an
alternative perspective, DNA is a versatile molecular building-block for the construction of …

DNA origami: scaffolds for creating higher order structures

F Hong, F Zhang, Y Liu, H Yan - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
DNA has become one of the most extensively used molecular building blocks for
engineering self-assembling materials. DNA origami is a technique that uses hundreds of …

Strategies to manipulate the performance of aptamers in SELEX, post-SELEX and microenvironment

S Qi, N Duan, IM Khan, X Dong, Y Zhang, S Wu… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aptamers are short single-stranded DNA or RNA oligonucleotides isolated from randomized
libraries, presenting high affinity and specificity toward targets with similar to antibodies …

Detection and beyond: Challenges and advances in aptamer-based biosensors

H Yoo, H Jo, SS Oh - Materials Advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Beyond traditional needs of biosensors such as high sensitivity and selectivity for analyte
detection, newly emerging requirements including a real-time detection ability and in-field …

Fractal assembly of micrometre-scale DNA origami arrays with arbitrary patterns

G Tikhomirov, P Petersen, L Qian - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Self-assembled DNA nanostructures enable nanometre-precise patterning that can be used
to create programmable molecular machines,,,, and arrays of functional materials,,. DNA …

Isothermal amplification of nucleic acids

Y Zhao, F Chen, Q Li, L Wang, C Fan - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Isothermal amplification of nucleic acids is a simple process that rapidly and efficiently
accumulates nucleic acid sequences at constant temperature. Since the early 1990s …

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 …

Challenges and perspectives of DNA nanostructures in biomedicine

A Keller, V Linko - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
DNA nanotechnology holds substantial promise for future biomedical engineering and the
development of novel therapies and diagnostic assays. The subnanometer‐level …

Building machines with DNA molecules

H Ramezani, H Dietz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
In nature, DNA molecules carry the hereditary information. But DNA has physical and
chemical properties that make it attractive for uses beyond heredity. In this Review, we …