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Design and Development of Aptamer–Gold Nanoparticle Based Colorimetric Assays for In-the-field Applications
Published on: June 23, 2016
Unmodified gold nanoparticles as a colorimetric probe for potassium DNA aptamers
Lihua Wang1, Xingfen Liu, Xiaofang Hu
1Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China.
Abstract:
Unmodified gold nanoparticles effectively differentiate unfolded and folded DNA, thus providing a novel approach to colorimetrically probe aptamer-based recognition processes.

