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Optical detection of abnormal skin scarring

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Topically applied spherical nucleic acids targeting an intracellular mRNA biomarker associated with abnormal scarring enable the fluorescent detection of abnormal scars during wound healing.

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Fig. 1: Gold nanoparticles with spherical nucleic acids for the detection of intracellular mRNA (NanoFlares).

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