Pharmaceuticals (Jan 2019)

Aptamer-Based Diagnostics and Therapeutics

  • Sarah Shigdar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ph12010006
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
p. 6

Abstract

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Aptamers were first described almost 30 years ago, with the publication of three separate research papers describing how a randomized library of RNA sequences could be incubated with a target to find a sequence that specifically binds via van der Waals forces, covalent and hydrogen bonding, and not Watson Crick base pairing [...]

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