DNA and RNA Nanobiotechnologies in Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases

Introduction.- RNA Nanotechnology: methods for synthesis, conjugation, assembly and application of RNA nanoparticles.- Adsorption of double-stranded DNA to graphene oxide preventing enzymatic digestion.- Electrogenerated chemiluminescence of conjugated polymer films from patterned electrodes.- Use of RNA structure flexibility data in nanostructure modeling.- Informatic resources for identifying and annotating structural RNA motifs.- A nanostructure made of a bacterial noncoding RNA.- HAPIscreen, a method for high-throughput aptamer identification.- Characterization of photophysical and base-mimicking properties of a novel fluorescent adenine analogue in DNA.- Bifacial nucleoside as a surrogate for both T and A in duplex DNA.- Functionally important structural elements of U12 snRNA.- Self-assembling RNA nanorings based on RNAI/II inverse kissing complexes.- Automatic molecular weaving prototyped by using single-stranded DNA.- Nucleic Acid Aptamers: Clinical Applications and Promising New Horizons.- Nanotextured Substrates With Immobilized Aptamers for Cancer Cell Isolation and Cytology.- Targeting cancer with peptide aptamers.- Synthetic, biofunctional nucleic acid-based molecular devices.- Inducible site-selective bottom-up assembly of virus-derived nanotube arrays on RNA-equipped wafers.- Special delivery: targeted therapy with small RNAs, RNAi nanomedicines: challenges and opportunities within the immune system.- Pyrene-functionalized oligonucleotides and locked nucleic acids (LNAs): Tools for fundamental research, diagnostics, and nanotechnology.- Stabilizing RNA by the sonochemical formation of RNA nanospheres. Sonochemical synthesis of DNA nanospheres.- Nucleic acid based molecular devices.- Nanoparticle therapeutics: FDA approval, clinical trials, regulatory pathways, and case study.- A sol-gel-based microfluidics system enhances the efficiency of RNA aptamer selection.- Hierarchical nanotextured microelectrodes overcome the molecular transport barrier to