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Fabrication of Electrochemical-DNA Biosensors for the Reagentless Detection of Nucleic Acids, Proteins and Small Molecules
Published on: June 1, 2011
A simple and sensitive sensor for rapid detection of sulfide anions using DNA-templated copper nanoparticles as
Jie Liu1, Junhua Chen, Zhiyuan Fang
1Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, South China Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510530, China.
The Analyst
|October 20, 2012
Abstract:
A simple and rapid method for the detection of S(2-) anions with high selectivity and sensitivity has been developed by using random double-strand DNA-templated formation of copper nanoparticles as novel fluorescence probes in aqueous solution.
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