Themed collection Analytical Methods Review Articles 2022

This review mainly presents the recent progress in detecting extracellular vesicles using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy-based technology.

Electrochemical methodology has probably been the most used sensing platform in the past few years as they provide superior advantages.

Schematic illustration of development of metal salt-assisted ionization sources-mass spectrometry for soft ionization of polymers.

Ammonia with the three hydrogens substituted by phenyls is known as triphenylamine (TPA), and is one of the most useful compounds because of its vast practical applications.

The analytical applications of NCDs as an optical sensor for sensing broad range species such as various cations and anions, molecules, and biologically important species, and gases, pH and temperature.

The molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2 is extremely important for the discovery and prevention of pandemic dissemination.

EIS is mainly employed for immunosensors and aptasensors, but opportunities exist for enzymatic, composite and other sensor strategies.

HILIC is used for the enrichment of hydrophilic glycopeptides from hydrophobic analytes. HILIC can be used for solid-phase extraction (SPE), pipette-based ziptips, magnetic beads, and centrifugation-based resins.

The small non-coding RNA, microRNA-21 (miR-21), is dysregulated in various cancerous diseases and can be a target for therapeutic approaches. Various types of biosensors have proven to be attractive alternatives for clinical diagnosis.

This review article signifies current progress in the synthesis of tunable fluorescent carbon dots and their potential for the detection of a variety of pharmaceutical drugs with detailed mechanism.

Telomerase is an enzyme that protects the length of telomeres by adding guanine-rich repetitive sequences. In tumors, gametes, and stem cells, telomerase activity is exerted.

It is highly crucial to implement real-time monitoring of anaesthetic drugs to impart quality anaesthetic care. Towards this aspect, this review focuses on the present strategy of electrochemical sensors for the detection of anesthetic drugs.

This review focuses on the quantitation-related factors in MSI, recent advances in the strategies of quantitative MSI (q-MSI) of small molecules and strategies for validating q-MSI methods. Finally, the future perspectives to q-MSI are proposed.

In this review, the category of technologies to capture single cells and their latest applications are summarized. Finally, some perspectives are provided on current development trends, future research directions, and challenges of single-cell capture.

This review paper examines recent (mostly 2018 or later) advancements in 3D printed microfluidics.

With the recent progress of biological and environmental research, detection of pH values has become one of the most indispensable requirements.

The human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER-2) protein is a member of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR or ErbB) family and is a transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor.