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ReviewAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2020

In Pursuit of Zero 2.0: Recent Developments in Nonfouling Polymer Brushes for Immunoassays.

Jacob T Heggestad, Cassio M Fontes, Daniel Y Joh, Angus M Hucknall, Ashutosh Chilkoti

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Review in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Nonfouling Coatings from Synthetic Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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  14. Engineering Innovative Interfaces for Point-of-Care Diagnostics.Current opinion in colloid & interface science · 2023
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  18. Technologies for Frugal and Sensitive Point-of-Care Immunoassays.Annual review of analytical chemistry (Palo Alto, Calif.) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jacob T HeggestadDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
Cassio M FontesDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
Daniel Y JohDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
Angus M HucknallDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
Ashutosh ChilkotiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1569-2228

Funding

Medical Scientist Training Program Training GrantT32GM145449 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Christopher D Kontos · 2022 to 2026
$6.6M
Point-of-care cellular and molecular pathology of breast tumors on a cell phoneR01CA248491 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CHILKOTI, ASHUTOSH, HWANG, E. SHELLEY · 2020 to 2024
$2.9M
Smartphone Enabled Point-of-Care Detection of Serum Markers of Liver CancerUH3CA211232 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CHAO, NELSON J., CHILKOTI, ASHUTOSH · 2019 to 2021
$1.9M
Smartphone Enabled Point-of-Care Detection of Serum Markers of Liver CancerUG3CA211232 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CHAO, NELSON J., CHILKOTI, ASHUTOSH · 2017 to 2018
$785k
Point of Care Testing to Improve Monitoring of LVAD PatientsR21HL141028 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CHILKOTI, ASHUTOSH, FRANKLIN, AARON · 2018 to 2019
$421k
Combat Casualty Care Research Program W81XWH-17-2-0045Department of Defense United States Special Operations Command W81XWH-16-C-0219NCI NIH HHS 4UH3CA211232-03NCI NIH HHS R01 CA248491NCI NIH HHS UG3 CA211232NCI NIH HHS UH3 CA211232NHLBI NIH HHS 5R21HL141028-02NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM145449U.S. Department of Defense
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

"Nonfouling" polymer brush surfaces can greatly improve the performance of in vitro diagnostic (IVD) assays due to the reduction of nonspecific protein adsorption and consequent improvement of signal-to-noise ratios. The development of synthetic polymer brush architectures that suppress adventitious protein adsorption is reviewed, and their integration into surface plasmon resonance and fluorescent sandwich immunoassay formats is discussed. Also, highlighted is a novel, self-contained immunoassay platform (the D4 assay) that transforms time-consuming laboratory-based assays into a user-friendly and point-of-care format with a sensitivity and specificity comparable or better than standard enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) directly from unprocessed samples. These advancements clearly demonstrate the utility of nonfouling polymer brushes as a substrate for ultrasensitive and robust diagnostic assays that may be suitable for clinical testing, in field and laboratory settings.

Indexed as

BiofoulingHumansImmunoassayPoint-of-Care TestingPolymersPolymersimmunoassaysin vitro diagnosticsnonfouling surfacespolymer brushes

Identifiers

PMID31782843
PMCPMC6986790

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