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This work introduces a new approach to develop ultrasensitive biosensors for the detection of fM level molecular biomarkers. The key principle is the integration of single molecule manipulation and single molecule interaction analysis to surpass the thermodynamic limits.
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Conventional biosensors are limited by the thermodynamic limits, leading to insufficient sensitivity with the limit of detection at the pM level. But many molecular biomarkers are of low abundance in body fluid, usually at the fM level or even less. The develop of ultrasensitive biosensors could enable the discovery of new biomarkers as well as new diagnostic tools. In this work, we presented an alternative dynamic single molecule approach to surpass the thermodynamic limits, and achieved sub-fM level detection of limit. It is sensitive, rapid and compatible with most probes.
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This page is a summary of: Dynamic single-molecule sensing by actively tuning binding kinetics for ultrasensitive biomarker detection, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2120379119.
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