Aptamer Generation and Bioapplication

Dear Colleagues,

Aptamers are bioaffinity molecules that have many advantages such as in vitro generation, low cost, wide acceptability of chemical modifications. Combined with transduction technologies, aptamers can be further fabricated to develop aptasensors, which show superior merits of low cost, rapid response, high sensitivity and selectivity, etc. Thus, aptamers and aptasensors show great bioapplication potentials in the fields of analytical chemistry, including disease diagnosis, food analysis, environment monitoring, etc. This Special Issue is devoted to the dissemination of research into aptamer generation and bioapplication. All kinds of advanced studies in aptamer-related exploration will be covered in our scope. Fundamental studies of aptamer generation via both SELEX and post-SELEX will be considered. Novel and facile strategies for aptamer generation are highly welcome. Articles about the development of aptasensors involving all kinds of transduction technologies, including but not limited to optics, electrochemistry, thermometry, and mass, will be considered. Among them, studies on aptasensors accompanied with verification in real-world application are greatly encouraged. The following categories of manuscripts will be considered for publication: full research articles, short communications, reviews, and mini-reviews. Submissions should not be previously published. All the submissions will be peer-reviewed before acceptance for publication.

Dr. Sai Wang
Prof. Dr. Wei Wu
Dr. Long Wu
Guest Editors

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