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Complications of coronary artery disease are the number one cause of death worldwide, so identification of high-risk individuals is crucial. Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PAPP-A) is a candidate cardiac-risk related ...

Cardiac troponin (cTn) I and T are the recommended biomarkers for the diagnosis and risk stratification of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS), a major cause of cardiovascular death and disability worldwide. ...

Bioaffinity assays are commonly used for specific detection of biomarkers in biological samples. Reducing the lowest detectable concentration, i.e. the analytical sensitivity of such assays, is beneficial for several ...

Owing to their high clinical success rate, advancements in biotechnology, and increased understanding of disease mechanisms, therapeutic antibodies have become an important modality for the treatment of many diseases. ...

Photon upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) are promising reporters for supersensitive bioaffinity assays because they can be detected completely without autofluorescence background. This is enabled by anti-Stokes shifted ...

Cholesterol content of high density lipoprotein (HDL-C) has been a well established cardiac risk marker for coronary artery disease (CAD), a major cause of mortality worldwide. Various epidemiological and experimental ...

Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecological malignancy and the seventh most common cancer worldwide. Current diagnosis options for ovarian cancer suffer from a lack of sensitivity and specificity that lead to either ...