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Maria Chiara Giuffrida
Researcher at University of Catania
Publications - 24
Citations - 500
Maria Chiara Giuffrida is an academic researcher from University of Catania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prodrug & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 24 publications receiving 373 citations.
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Integration of isothermal amplification methods in microfluidic devices: Recent advances
TL;DR: Isothermal methods, that operate at constant temperature, have emerged as promising alternative to PCR and greatly simplify the implementation of amplification methods in point-of-care diagnostic devices and devices to be used in resource-limited settings.
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Peptide Nucleic Acid-Based Biosensors for Cancer Diagnosis.
TL;DR: This review provides an overview of recently described PNA-based biosensors for cancer biomarker detection with the possibility to detect target nucleic acids at the ultra-low concentration with the capability to identify single-base mutations.
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Isothermal circular-strand-displacement polymerization of DNA and microRNA in digital microfluidic devices
Maria Chiara Giuffrida,Laura Maria Zanoli,Roberta D'Agata,Alessia Finotti,Roberto Gambari,Giuseppe Spoto +5 more
TL;DR: The combined use of digital microfluidics and molecular-beacon (MB)-assisted isothermal circular-strand-displacement polymerization (ICSDP) to detect microRNA-210 sequences is described, described as the most consistently and predominantly upregulated hypoxia-inducible factor.
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Ultrasensitive detection of lysozyme in droplet-based microfluidic devices.
TL;DR: A digital microfluidic-based approach that combines the gold nanoparticle-enhanced chemiluminescence with aptamer interaction to detect human lysozyme into droplets 20 nanoliters in volume is reported on.
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Synthesis of n-squalenoyl cytarabine and evaluation of its affinity with phospholipid bilayers and monolayers
Maria Grazia Sarpietro,Sara Ottimo,Maria Chiara Giuffrida,Flavio Rocco,Maurizio Ceruti,Francesco Castelli +5 more
TL;DR: An improved affinity of the prodrug with MLV and monolayers with respect to the free drug was showed and the possibility to use liposomes as carriers for the pro drug was considered.