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Review papers

Current trends and challenges in bioelectrochemistry for non-invasive and early diagnosis

Author: Campuzano S, Yanez-Sedeno P, Pingarron JM.

Electrochemical (bio)sensing for early and minimally invasive clinical diagnosis. Latest advances, current trends, potentiality and existing challenges. Judicious design of …

Direct surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy of nucleic acids: from fundamental studies to real-life applications

Author: Garcia-Rico E, Alvarez-Puebla RA, Guerrini L.

ummary and discussion of the most recent cutting-edge research in the field of direct SERS sensing of nucleic acids.

Scissors become sensors

Author: Kocak DD, Gersbach CA.

The current studies greatly expand and diversify the possible beneficiaries of CRISPR technology, by developing a low-cost technique that has …

Next-generation diagnostics with CRISPR

Author: Chertow DS.

Chen et al. (3), Myhrvold et al. (4), and Gootenberg et al. (5), respectively, highlight how evolving insights into CRISPR-Cas …

Paper-Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests for Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Author: Kaur N, Toley BJ.

This article aims to review and analyse the current state of development of paper-based NAATs. We project paper-based NAATs as …

Molecular diagnosis of protozoan parasites by Recombinase Polymerase Amplification

Author: Castellanos-Gonzalez A, White A.C, Melby P, Travi B.

Among isothermal methods, recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) is sensitive and potentially applicable at POC. We and others have developed RPA …

Simple Approaches to Minimally-Instrumented, Microfluidic-Based Point-of-Care Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests

Author: Mauk MG, Song J, Liu C, Bau HH.

Designs and applications of microfluidics-based devices for molecular diagnostics (Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests, NAATs) in infectious disease testing are reviewed, …

Infectious Pathogens Meet Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Author: Zarei M.

This review covers the developments on POC diagnosis of Zika, Ebola, Dengue, Malaria, HIV, Hepatitis, and Influenza between 2015 and …

Library preparation methods for next-generation sequencing: Tone down the bias

Author: Van Dijk EL, Jaszczyszyn Y, Thermes C.

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has caused a revolution in biology. NGS requires the preparation of libraries in which (fragments of) DNA ..

Isothermal amplified detection of DNA and RNA

Author: Yan L, Zhou J, Zheng Y, Gamson AS, Roembke BT, Nakayama S, Sintim HO.

This review highlights various methods that can be used for a sensitive detection of nucleic acids without using thermal cycling …