Ex vivo engineering of organs that uses decellularized whole organs as a scaffold with autologous stem cells is a potential alternative to traditional transplantation....
Due to their intrinsic nuclease resistance, L-oligonucleotides are being increasingly utilized in the development of molecular tools and sensors. Yet, it remains chall...
Carbon dots, the celebrated green material among the nanocarbon family, are blessed with several interesting features like biocompatibility, solubility, tunable lumine...
The rapid spread and quick transmission of the new ongoing pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has urged the scientific community to looking for strong techno...
Proteases are critical signaling molecules and prognostic biomarkers for many diseases including cancer. There is a strong demand for multiplex bioanalytical technique...
Clarithromycin is an improved semisynthetic analogue of the naturally occurring macrolide, erythromycin. The subtle modification of a methyl group on the C-6 hydroxyl ...
Sahika Inal is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at KAUST and has been leading the Organic Bioelectronics group since 2016. With a Ph.D. in Experimental Physics...
Certain clinical indications and treatments such as the use of rasburicase in cancer therapy and 8-aminoquinolines for Plasmodium vivax malaria treatment would benefit...
A CRISPR-based nucleic acid detection platform, termed LACD (loop-mediated isothermal amplification coupled with CRISPR-Cas12a-mediated diagnostic) has been developed....
The establishment of a simple, low-cost, high-sensitive and rapid immunoassay for detecting SARS-CoV-2 antigen in human blood is an effective mean of discovering early...
Agricultural products are frequently contaminated by mycotoxins; thus, the accurate detection of mycotoxins is important to food safety. Zearalenone (ZEN), a mycotoxin...
Apoptosis is a type of cell death caused by the occurrence of both pathological and physiological conditions triggered by ligation of death receptors outside the cell ...
Microribonucleic acids (miRNAs) are short noncoding ribonucleic acids that have been linked with a multitude of human diseases including lung, breast, and hematologica...
We reported an electrochemical biosensor via CuFe2O4-enhanced photoinitiated chain-growth polymerization for ultrasensitive detection of lung cancer-related gene. In t...
In recent decades, artificial nanozymes with excellent stability, low cost and availability have been gradually explored to avoid the limits of natural enzymes such as...
Acetylcholine (ACh), the major neurotransmitter secreted by cholinergic neurons, is widely found in the peripheral and central nervous systems, and its main function i...
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) with genetically encoded near-infrared probes enables visualization of specific cell populations in vivo at high resolution deeply in bi...
A novelty aptasensor for ultrasensitive detection of Hg2+ is developed, exploiting the combination of plasmonic properties of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and exonucleas...
Gastric cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors, and early diagnosis will be of great significance to improve the survival quality and overall treatment outc...
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) has been extensively studied as a suitable material for a wide range of fields including catalysis and sensing. For example, TiO2-based nanopar...