Aptamers: Designs and Application in Biosensing and Biomedical Application
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 366
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Interests: biosensors; microfluidic devices; tissue engineering; drug delivery
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Dear Colleagues,
Aptamers are short and single-stranded DNA or RNA molecules with highly programmable structures that give them the ability to interact specifically with a large variety of targets, including proteins, cells, and small molecules. Aptamers can be selected to target ligands that are extremely small, highly toxic, or non-immunogenic, characteristics that are not readily achievable with conventional antibodies. In addition, thanks to large-scale oligonucleotide synthesis, the production of aptamers is significantly more cost-effective and accessible than that of antibodies. As a result, aptamers have attracted much research attention, especially in biosensing, biomedical and clinical engineering fields.
In this Special Issue, we invite the scientific community to publish their recent research articles or review papers on the design of aptamers and their application on biosensing and biomedical filed, such as biosensors, detections, cancer treatment, diagnostics and drug delivery.
Prof. Dr. Xudong Cao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aptamers
- aptamer-based biosensors
- biosensing
- cancer treatment
- diagnosis
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