Aptamer-functionalized gold nanoparticles for specific detection of human breast cancer cells

• Main Author: Lim, Florence Si Qi
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Bioengineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61547
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The incidence of breast cancer for female worldwide is increasing. It has become of utmost importance to have detection methods that can selectively and sensitively detect cancerous cells at early stages whereby population of cancer cells are still low. Early detection of cancer is essen...