extraction of intact quality dna from plant tissues, especially those rich in secondary metabolites, is often challenging. literally, hundreds of different dna isolation protocols from various plant species have been published over the last decades. although many commercial dna isolation kits are convenient and designed to be safe, their cost and availability cause limitations in small molecula...

Extraction of intact quality DNA from plant tissues, especially those rich in secondary metabolites, is often challenging. Literally, hundreds of different DNA isolation protocols from various plant species have been published over the last decades. Although many commercial DNA isolation kits are convenient and designed to be safe, their cost and availability cause limitations in small molecula...

Nanotechnology has a great influence on modern technology, just like the development of DNA profiling on biotechnology in the past 50 years. Because of applying knowledge and techniques from natural science, forensic science aims to identify, individualize and evaluate evidence. Evidence will then be used to reconstruct crime scenes, guide investigations and bring criminals to justice. Nanotech...

TheUSNational Institutes of Health define thewordNanomedicine as “an offshoot of nanotechnology” in the context of “specific medical intervention at the molecular scale for curing diseases or repairing tissues”.1 Other broader definitions promote the term as the application of nanotechnology into the realm of medicine2 for the “preservation and improvement of human health using molecular tools ...

Molecular recognition based on non-covalent interactions between two or more molecules plays a crucial role in biological systems. Specific molecule has been widely applied biotechnology, clinical diagnosis, and treatment. The efficiency affinity of molecular are greatly determined by the spatial conformation biomolecules. designability DNA nanotechnology makes possible precise programming biom...

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are employed in numerous applications, including optics, biosensing, and catalysis. In their Communication (e202212459), Petra S. Dittrich et al. demonstrate the stabilizer-free electrochemical synthesis of AuNPs inside nanoliter-sized reactors. with sizes range 30 to 100 nm were produced without need for additional capping agents. This method opens way fine-tune prod...

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are employed in numerous applications, including optics, biosensing, and catalysis. In their Communication (e202212459), Petra S. Dittrich et al. demonstrate the stabilizer-free electrochemical synthesis of AuNPs inside nanoliter-sized reactors. with sizes range 30 to 100 nm were produced without need for additional capping agents. This method opens way fine-tune prod...

Over the past 30 years DNA has been assembled into a plethora of structures by design, based on its reliable base pairing properties. As a result, many applications of DNA nanotechnology are emerging. Here, we review recent advances in the use of self-assembled DNA nanostructures as sensors. In particular, we focus on how defined nanostructures, such as rigid DNA tetrahedra, provide an advantag...

Transmembrane proteins are mostly nanochannels playing a highly important role in metabolism. Understanding their structures and functions is vital for revealing life processes. It is of fundamental interest to develop chemical devices to mimic biological channels. Structural DNA nanotechnology has been proven to be a promising method for the preparation of fine DNA nanochannels as a result of ...

Pattern formation is a topic of great interest in biology and nanotechnology. In this paper we investigate a system of spatially-organized reactions inspired by a well-known distributed algorithm for approximate majority voting, and demonstrate that this system can lead to pattern formation from a randomly initialized starting state. We also show that the approximate majority reaction scheme ca...