title: In-vitro nanodiagnostic platform through nanoparticles and DNA-RNA nanotechnology.
abstract: Nanocomposites containing nanoparticles or nanostructured domains exhibit an even higher degree of material complexity that leads to an extremely high variability of nanostructured materials. This review introduces analytical concepts and techniques for nanomaterials and derives recommendations for a qualified selection of characterization techniques for specific types of samples, and focuses the characterization of nanoparticles and their agglomerates or aggregates. In addition, DNA nanotechnology and the more recent newcomer RNA nanotechnology have achieved almost an advanced status among nanotechnology researchers¸ therefore, the core features, potential, and significant challenges of DNA nanotechnology are also highlighted as a new discipline. Moreover, nanobiochips made by nanomaterials are rapidly emerging as a new paradigm in the area of large-scale biochemical analysis. The use of nanoscale components enables higher precision in diagnostics while considerably reducing the cost of the platform that leads this review to explore the use of nanoparticles, nanomaterials, and other bionanotechnologies for its application to nanodiagnostics in-vitro.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical and Tissue Engineering Research Group, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Prince Philip Dental Hospital, 34 Hospital Road, Hong Kong, China, h0492142@hku.hk.
authors.forename: Ki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Tzi Bun
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Ng
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D025202:Molecular Diagnostic Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D053758:Nanoparticles; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D012313:RNA; D004247:DNA