Recent progress in nucleic acid aptamer-based biosensors and bioassays

Sensors

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7050-7084

  Mok, Wendy ^a   Li, Yingfu ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aptamers; Bioassays; Biosensors

Indexed keywords

APTAMER TECHNOLOGY; APTAMERS; CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICALS; FUNCTIONAL NUCLEIC ACIDS; INTRAMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCERS; SINGLE-STRANDED DNA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE;

BIOASSAY; BIOMOLECULES; BIOSENSORS; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; TOOLS;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EID: 56449120784     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s8117050     Document Type: Article

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