,DNA:SELEXEX

Yuzhe Ding1, Ziyu Zhang1, Yunus A Kaiyum2

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada. liujw@uwaterloo.ca.

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概括

研究人员开发出了能与Tris缓冲剂结合的aptamer,这是一个常见的实验室化学物质. 然而,试图为HEPES缓冲器创建aptamer的尝试没有成功,这突出了aptamer选择实验中的潜在挑战.

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