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99, and a detection limit of 2.9 pM (10-11 g/mL). This excellent sensitivity was achieved with simple preparation steps and minimal reagent consumption, without the need for complicated procedures such as enzymatic amplification, fluorescent labeling, or nanoparticle modification.Acoustics recordings from laser-induced plasmas are becoming increasingly regarded as a complementary source of information from the inspected sample. The propagation of these waves is susceptible to be modified by the physicochemical traits of the sample, thus yielding specific details that can be used for sorting and identification of targets. Still, the relative fragility of the acoustic wave poses major challenges to the applicability of laser-induced acoustics. Echoes and reflections sourcing from intrasample parameters as well as from interactions of the acoustic wave with the surroundings of the inspected target can dilute the analytical information directly related to the object contained within the recordings. The present work aims to experimentally scrutinize the impact of different parameters internal and external to the sample into the final acoustic signal from laser-induced plasmas in order to accurately use this information source for characterization purposes. Variables inherent to the sample such as dimensions, porosity and absorption coefficient, which guides the laser-matter coupling process, have been, for the first time, systematically studied using ad-hoc solids to thoroughly isolate their influence on the signal. Moreover, modulation of soundwave induced by the surroundings of the probed target and the anisotropy of the acoustic signal because of the angle at which the plasma is formed, have been evaluated.The concentration of tumor biomarker Mucin 1 (MUC 1) is highly related with many diseases, which can be employed for the early diagnosis of cancer. In this paper, an electrochemical ratiometric aptasensor with intrinsic self-calibration property for the detection of MUC 1 is presented. In this paper, Co-MOFs themselves were employed as signal substances. This strategy was fabricated by using gold nanoparticles@black phosphorus (BP) as the substrate on the electrode, followed by modification of DNA nanotetrahedrons (DTN) via Au-S bond. The terminal of DTN contains MUC 1 aptamer. In the presence of MUC 1, the signal of DNA-labeled Co-MOFs can be detected. The current signal of Co-MOFs increased and that of thionine (as reference) was unchanged upon the addition of MUC 1. Thus, an intrinsic self-calibration aptasensor was achieved. In order to simplify the modification procedure, the electrolyte solution thionine was employed as an inner reference probe. Moreover, coupling of the hybridization chain reaction (HCR) with these MOFs signal tags presents an enzyme-free method for signal amplification, endowing the proposed ratiometric biosensor detection with high reproducibility and high sensitivity. The current ratio (IIR/ISP) remained stable over 30 individual measurements performed on ten different working electrodes. Even ten repeated scans performed on a single electrode exhibited a constant current ratio. The electrochemical ratiometric aptasensor is highly sensitivity for MUC 1 with the detection limit of 1.34 fM. Our proposed ratiometric sensor has great potential for the detection of cancer-related biomarkers.Fatty acids (FAs) possess highly diverse structures and can be divided into saturated and unsaturated classes. For unsaturated FAs, both the numbers and positions of carbon-carbon double bond (C=C) determine their biological functions. Abnormal levels of FA isomers have been reported to be involved in various disease development, such as cancer. Despite numerous advances in lipidomics, simultaneous quantifying and pinpointing C=C bond positions in a high-throughput manner remains a challenge. Here we conducted epoxidation of C=C bonds of unsaturated FAs followed by the conjugation with isobaric SUGAR tags. With the assistance of LC-MS, FA isomers with the same masses were separated on the C18 column and individually subjected to MS/MS fragmentation. Upon higher-energy collisional dissociation, not only reporter ions for multiplexed quantification but also diagnostic ions for C=C localization were generated at the same time, allowing quantitative analyses of different unsaturated FA isomers in samples. The performance of this approach including epoxidation, labeling efficiencies, quantitation accuracy, and capability to pinpoint C=C bond position were evaluated. To evaluate our method, free FA extracts from healthy human serum were used to demonstrate the feasibility of this method for complex sample analysis. Finally, this method was also applied to investigate the changes of unsaturated FA isomers between heathy human and Alzheimer's disease (AD) patient serum.Early rapid screening diagnostic assay is essential for the identification, prevention, and evaluation of many contagious or refractory diseases. The optical density transducer created by platinum nanoparticles (PtNPs) (OD-CRISPR) is reported in the present research as a cheap and easy-to-execute CRISPR/Cas12a-based diagnostic platform. The OD-CRISPR uses PtNPs, with ultra-high peroxidase-mimicking activity, to increase the detection sensitivity, thereby enabling the reduction of detection time and cost. The OD-CRISPR can be utilized to identify nucleic acid or protein biomarkers within an incubation time of 30-40min in clinical specimens. E7766 In the case of taking severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) N gene as an instance, when compared to a quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR), the OD-CRISPR test attains a sensitivity of 79.17% and a specificity of 100%. In terms of detecting prostate-specific antigen (PSA), aptamer-based OD-CRISPR assay achieves the least discoverable concentration of 0.01 ng mL-1. In general, the OD-CRISPR can detect nucleic acid and protein biomarkers, and is a potential strategy for early rapid screening diagnostic tools.Hydrosulfuric acid is an aqueous solution of hydrogen sulfide (H2S). At physiological pH, approximately 80% of the total amount of H2S exists in the form of monoanionic HS-. Because HS- is both widely distributed and highly toxic to humans, it is necessary to design an efficient method to detect HS- with high sensitivity and selectivity. So, the nitrogen-doped carbon dots (NCDs) with green fluorescence are synthesized using a one-step hydrothermal method. The as-prepared NCDs show it can be effectively used as an indicator for monitoring HS-. And the NCD fluorescence intensity exhibits a linear relationship with HS- concentration. In addition, NCDs as a probe can be applied for fluorescence imaging in living cells to detect the presence of trace exogenous HS-.Degradation analysis of therapeutic mAb is of high interest for critical quality attributes assessment and biotransformation studies. However, some obstacles, including low in vivo concentrations of mAb and complex biological matrices containing IgGs, could seriously interfere with mAb bioanalysis. In this study, a bioanalytical platform was developed for studying in vitro/in vivo modifications of trastuzumab, in which specific capture on mimotope peptide modified material was combined with trypsin digestion and LC-QTOF-MS analysis. It is worth noting that this material exhibits high specificity, suitable dynamic binding capacity, very little non-specific protein adsorption, and thus provides good enrichment and quantification performances for trastuzumab from patient serums. In particular, this bioanalytical platform was successfully applied to the dynamic monitoring of modifications of trastuzumab, such as deamidation, isomerization, oxidation and cyclization. Except for the faster deamidation of LC-Asn-30 and HC-Asn-387/392/393 under serum incubation, similar degradation trends for other sites were observed in phosphate buffer and spiked serum. Differences of peptide modification degrees of trastuzumab in patient serums were also observed. The novel platform exhibited superior specificity than Protein A/G/L based analytical methods, lower cost and higher stability than antigen or anti-idiotypic antibody based analytical methods, ensuring the evaluation of modification sites.Titration without separation, e.g. quantification of a target species in living cells, is a challenge of analytical chemistry. We perform the selective detection of a target using the kinetics involved in a photochemical process and develop a correlation method that we illustrate by the titration of a fluorescent photoswitcher and the target of a photoswitching sensor. Correlating an input time series and a well-chosen weighting function associated with a variable characteristic time yields a spectrum of characteristic times. The upper integration limit of the correlation output can be chosen to match the argument of an extremum of the spectrum with a characteristic time of the input time series in order to quantify the target. A similar procedure is followed to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio. Selectivity and signal-to-noise ratio associated with 15 weighting functions are theoretically predicted. The results are applied to the titration of the reversibly photoswitchable fluorescent protein Dronpa-2 and the titration of calcium using a reversibly photoswitchable fluorescent sensor. The performance of the correlation method is favorably compared to the one of other dynamic contrast protocols.To combat the new virus currently ravaging the whole world, every possible anti-virus strategy should be explored. As the main strategy of targeting the virus itself is being frustrated by the rapid mutation of the virus, people are seeking an alternative "host targeting" strategy neutralizing proteins in the human body that cooperate with the virus. The cathepsin family is such a group of promising host targets, the main biological function of which is to digest the extracellular matrix (ECM) to clear a path for virus spreading. To evaluate the potential of cathepsin as a host target, we have constructed a biosensing interface mimicking the ECM, which can detect cathepsin from 3.3 pM to 33 nM with the limit of detection of 1 pM. Based on our quantitative analysis enabled by this biosensing interface, it is clear that patients with background diseases such as chronic inflammation and tumor, tend to have higher cathepsin activity, confirming the potential of cathepsin to serve as a host target for combating COVID-19 virus.Calibration transfer has been traditionally performed in the context of transferring models between instruments using standard samples. Recently, new methodologies and applications have shown that transfer techniques can be adopted to achieve calibration transfer between other types of domains, such as product form, variant or seasonality. In addition, to achieving a higher efficiency for calibration transfer, it is desirable to perform the transfer without the need for standard samples or new reference analyses. Therefore, we propose a method for unsupervised calibration transfer based on the orthogonalization for structural differences between domains. The method has been successfully applied to one simulated dataset and two real datasets. In the studied cases, the proposed methodology allowed to achieve a successful transfer of calibration models and enabled the interpretation of the interferences responsible for the degradation of the original calibration models when transferred to the new domain.