DNA Molecular Engineering-Based Biosensors
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors and Healthcare".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 803
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bioanalysis of important biotargets offers an effective means to understand the operational mechanisms of spatiotemporal biological systems. There is an urgent need to develop novel biosensors and bioanalysis strategies with high sensitivity, high precision, and high intelligence through molecular engineering design. Benefitting from the obvious advantages of DNA molecules, such as the predictability of DNA hybridizations and the scaling-up ability of DNA strand displacement reactions, DNA nanotechnology provides a flexible and programmable platform for molecular engineering. Through rational molecular design, DNA molecules can be constructed into a series of DNA reaction networks and DNA nanostructures with specific functions involving molecular computing, logic control, mechanical motion and intelligent signal transduction. By combining DNA molecular engineering with biosensing strategies, numerous DNA molecular engineering-based biosensors have been reported in recent years and have showed great potential in bioapplications. However, due to the complexity of biological systems, there are still some challenges when designing DNA molecular engineering-based biosensors. With the development of biology and biomedicine, more and more important biological targets should be detected and various bioenvironments should be considered. In addition, we hope that our sensors will continue to become more sensitive, more selective, cheaper, smaller, and easy to use.
This Special Issue aims to gather original articles and reviews showing research advances, molecular design, innovative applications, new challenges and future perspectives regarding DNA molecular engineering-based biosensors.
If you would be interested in submitting a contribution, or if you have any questions, please contact me.
Dr. Yifan Lyu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biosensors
- DNA nanotechnology
- molecular diagnosis
- bioimaging
- bioanalysis
- functional nucleic acid
- aptamers
