RNA and DNA Diagnostics

The aim of molecular diagnostics is preferentially to detect a developing disease before any symptoms appear. There has been a significant increase, fueled by technologies from the human genome project, in the availability of nucleic acid sequence information for all living organisms including bacteria and viruses. When combined with a different type of instrumentation applied, the resulting diagnostics is specific and sensitive. Nucleic acid-based medical diagnosis detects specific DNAs or RNAs from the infecting organism or virus and a specific gene or the expression of a gene associated with a disease. Nucleic acid approaches also stimulate a basic science by opening lines of inquiry that will lead to greater understanding of the molecules at the center of life. One can follow Richard Feynman's famous statement What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Solves open problems in the analyses and structure of new modified bases of nucleic acids, which can be used as molecular probes in diagnosis of different diseases Equips readers to handle complex issues of relation of nucleic acids structure, function and properties with human health Covers many different applications of nucleic acids technologies in laboratory testing as well as clinical diagnosis of various diseases

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Electrochemical Biosensors for miRNA Detection.- Electrochemical Detection of RNA.- DNA and PNA probes for DNA Detection in Electroanalytical Systems.- DNA for Non-Nucleic Acid Sensing.- Aptamers in Oncotherapy.- Genotyping of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism.- Environmentally Responsive and Bright Fluorescent Probes Possessing Dansyl-modified Oligonucleotides under Hybridization of DNA and RNA.- Fluorescent Nucleic Acid Analogues in Research and Clinical Diagnostics.- Emergent Properties and Functions of Nanoconfined Nucleic Acid Architectures.- RNA and DNA Diagnostics on Microspheres: Current and Emerging Methods.- DNA and RNA Electronic Properties for Molecular Modifications and Environmental State Diagnostics.- Mechanochemical Sensing.- Microarrays as Research Tools and Diagnostic Devices.- Quadruplex Priming Amplification (QPA) for Nucleic Acid Diagnostics.- Single-molecule strategies for DNA and RNA diagnostics.- Detection and Assessment of microRNA Expression in Human Disease.