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The Visual Colorimetric Detection of Multi-nucleotide Polymorphisms on a Pneumatic Droplet Manipulation Platform
Published on: September 27, 2016
Gold and silver nanoparticles functionalized with known numbers of oligonucleotides per particle for DNA detection
Yang Chen1, Jenny Aveyard, Robert Wilson
1Department of Chemistry and Centre for Bioarray Innovation, Liverpool University, Liverpool, UK L69 7ZD.
Abstract:
The biospecificity of gold and silver nanoparticles, functionalized with known numbers of oligonucleotides, is demonstrated in colorimetric microbead assays for complementary and mismatch sequences.

