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ReviewChemistryOpen2025

Progress in Aptamer Research and Future Applications.

Song Liu, Xiaolu Li, Huyang Gao, Jing Chen, Hongfeng Jiang

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Review in ChemistryOpen, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Song LiuBeijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Experimental Research Center, Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Disease, Beijing, China.
Xiaolu LiBeijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Experimental Research Center, Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Disease, Beijing, China.
Huyang GaoGuangxi Medical University, Life Sciences Institute, Nanning, China.
Jing ChenBeijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Experimental Research Center, Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Disease, Beijing, China.
Hongfeng JiangBeijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Experimental Research Center, Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Disease, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1600-3236

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 82370440
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aptamers are short, single-stranded DNA, RNA or synthetic XNA molecules that bind to target molecules with high specificity and affinity. These intrinsically structured RNA or DNA oligonucleotides are not only substitutes for antibodies, but also show great potential for applications in diagnostics, specific drug delivery, and treatment of certain diseases. While the process of aptamer identification and its core functional mechanism known as systematic evolution of exponentially enriched ligands (SELEX), SELEX involves a number of single processes, each contributing to the success or failure of aptamer generation. Today, aptamers are widely used to facilitate basic research discoveries and clinical diagnostics. In addition, aptamers play a promising role as clinical diagnostic and therapeutic agents. This review provides recent advances in this rapidly growing field of research, with special emphasis on aptamer generation and screening, small molecule aptamers, the development of aptamer applications, and applications in clinical medicine. And it also discusses the problems that still exist today with aptamers.

Indexed as

Aptamers, NucleotideSELEX Aptamer TechniqueHumansAptamers, NucleotideAntibodyAptamerAptamer characterizationSmall moleculeSystematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX)

Identifiers

PMID39901496
PMCPMC13140418

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