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SUBMITTER: Haldavnekar R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6076273 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180803 1
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-based cancer diagnostics is an important analytical tool in early detection of cancer. Current work in SERS focuses on plasmonic nanomaterials that suffer from coagulation, selectivity, and adverse biocompatibility when used in vitro, limiting this research to stand-alone biomolecule sensing. Here we introduce a label-free, biocompatible, ZnO-based, 3D semiconductor quantum probe as a pathway for in vitro diagnosis of cancer. By reducing size of the probe ...[more]