Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 26014; published online: 20 May 2016; updated: 08 November 2016.

This Article contains an error in the Introduction section,

“Gold nanoparticles are covalently labelled with capture oligonucleotides specific for Runx2 or Sox9 genes, and a fluorescently labelled short peptide. If complimentary mRNA is present, this peptide leaves the gold nanoparticle and begins to emit fluorescence”.

should read:

“Gold nanoparticles are covalently labelled with capture oligonucleotides specific for Runx2 or Sox9 genes, and a fluorescently labelled short oligonucleotide. If complimentary mRNA is present, this oligonucleotide leaves the gold nanoparticle and begins to emit fluorescence”.