5-Hydroxymethylcytosine (5 hmC) is a novel epigenetic modification that plays an important role in mammalian nuclear reprogramming, regulation of gene activity, and in...
BACKGROUND: The health management of patients with epilepsy could be improved by wearing devices that reliably detect when epileptic seizures happen. For the devices t...
Noble metal nanoparticle-3D graphene hybrid nanocomposites possess the advantage of nanoparticles and graphene, which have attracted extensive interest. Here we develo...
Optical biosensors, especially those based on plasmonic structures, have emerged recently as a potential tool for disease diagnostics. Plasmonic biosensors have demons...
WS2 nanotubes functionalized with carboxylic acid functions (WS2-COOH) were used for improved immobilization of the enzyme tyrosinase in order to form an electrochemic...
Oxytocin is a peptide hormone with high affinity to both Zn2+ and Cu2+ ions compared to other metal ions. This affinity makes oxytocin an attractive recognition layer ...
CD44 is a promising biomarker in the diagnosis and prognosis of malignancies. The serum CD44 level is closely related to disease progression and metastasis of malignan...
Allosteric transcription factors (aTFs) have proven widely applicable for biotechnology and synthetic biology as ligand-specific biosensors enabling real-time monitori...
Advanced detection of biomarkers in biofluids plays an important role in disease diagnosis and prognosis. Current techniques with pre-labelling suffer from high cost a...
Epigallocatechin-gallate (EGCG) is the main polyphenol ingredient of green tea. This compound is a strong antioxidant and oxidizes easily. Numerous studies demonstrate...
Cyclodextrin (CD) is a conical compound used in food and pharmaceutical industry to complexation of hydrophobic substances. It is a product of microbial enzymes which ...
In this work, a kind of novel nitrogen doped hydrazide conjugated carbon dots (NHCDs) with strong anodic electrochemiluminescence (ECL) at a low excitation potential w...
In vitro characterization of membrane proteins requires experimental approaches providing mimics of the microenvironment that proteins encounter in native membranes. I...
Mercury pollutants such as mercuric chloride (HgCl2), mercurous chloride (Hg2Cl2) and mercuric ammonium chloride (Hg(NH2)Cl) are often found in cosmetics. Previous att...
Nanozymes with peroxidase-like activity have been widely used as signal labels in electrochemical immunosensors. However, these sensors always suffer from some shortco...
Poly [(9,9-dioctylfluorenyl-2,7-diyl)-co-(1,4-benzo-{2,1',3}-thiadazole)] (PFBT) was functionalized with carboxyl groups via nanoprecipitation method to prepare polyme...
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in blood can provide valuable information when detecting, diagnosing, and monitoring cancer. This paper describes a system that consists...
Simultaneous measurements of glucose, lactate, and neurotransmitters (e.g., glutamate) in cell culture over hours and days can provide a more dynamic and longitudinal ...
This work reports a ZIF-8 (ZIF: Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework)-assisted NaYF4:Yb,Tm@ZnO upconverter for the photoelectrochemical (PEC) biosensing of carcinoembryonic ...
In this paper cobalt oxide (Co3O4) nanoparticles were mixed with polyacrylonitrile to prepare Co3O4 doped carbon nanofiber (CNF) composite by electrospinning and carbo...