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Nucleic Acid Amplification Strategies for Biosensing, Bioimaging, and Biomedicine

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Nucleic Acid Amplification Strategies for Biosensing, Bioimaging and Biomedicine

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Nucleic acid amplification methods are nucleic acid-assistant signal amplification strategies, which have been widely studied and applied for fundamental laboratory research, pharmacogenomics, gene diagnosis , and protein detection for many kinds of infectious diseases or cancers. Up to now, smart design and efficient applications of various nucleic acid molecule-based recycling amplification techniques have emerged as most promising tools, providing greatly enhanced sensitivity and selectivity for the targets in complicated biological samples, including blood, urine, saliva, tissues, and even living cells . Understanding the principles, characteristics, and dynamics of these amplification strategies is of great importance to their applications and research.

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  1. Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Detection Technology for Tumour Markers, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Linyi University, Linyi, 276005, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

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  1. Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Detection Technology for Tumour Markers, Linyi University, Linyi, Shandong, China

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  2. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China

    Sai Bi

  3. Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Detection Technology for Tumour Markers, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Linyi University, Linyi, Shandong, China

    Xinyue Song

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Zhou, H. (2019). Nucleic Acid Amplification Strategies for Biosensing, Bioimaging, and Biomedicine. In: Zhang, S., Bi, S., Song, X. (eds) Nucleic Acid Amplification Strategies for Biosensing, Bioimaging and Biomedicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7044-1_1

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