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Nature Materials 4, 797 - 798 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nmat1520
Quantum dots: DNA detectives
Benoit Dubertret1
- Benoit Dubertret is at the CNRS, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Paris 75231, France. e-mail: benoit.dubertret@espci.fr
Abstract
The use of quantum dots as DNA nanosensors promises to significantly enhance the sensitivity of fluorescence-based DNA detection for medical diagnosis and biomolecular investigations.
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