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Recent advances in SERS assays for detection of multiple extracellular vesicles biomarkers for cancer diagnosis

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A plasmonic mesoporous gold-based SERS-microfluidic platform for the detection of infectious diseases

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Molecule-Responsive SERS Sensors for Urine Diagnosis of Kidney Diseases Enhanced by Neural Networks

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Tunable viscoelastic size-based particle separation in straight microchannels with triangular cross-sections

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Integrated Electrochemical and Optical Biosensing in Organs‐on‐Chip

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Dual-Function SERS Microdroplet Sensor for Rapid Differentiation of Influenza a and SARS-CoV-2

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Scaling nanopharmaceutical production for personalized medicine: challenges and strategies

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Emerging biomedical applications of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy integrated with artificial intelligence and microfluidic technologies

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SERS-active core-satellite nanostructures in a membrane filter-integrated microfluidic device for sensitive and continuous detection of trace molecules

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Advances in tumor marker detection using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

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Plasmonic cellulose microfilament assisted SERS detection in microfluidics

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Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Nitrite Detection

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SERS-CNN approach for non-invasive and non-destructive monitoring of stem cell growth on a universal substrate through an analysis of the cultivation medium

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Advancing clinical cancer care: Unveiling the power of surface‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy

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Recent Trends in SERS-Based Plasmonic Sensors for Disease Diagnostics, Biomolecules Detection, and Machine Learning Techniques

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A Microfluidic Liquid Biopsy Platform to Monitor Protein Biomarker Heterogeneity in Single Circulating Therapy‐Resistance Cancer Cell

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A Digital Single‐Molecule Nanocavity Assay to Monitor Phosphoprotein Circuits in Single‐Cell

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Advances in paper and microfluidic based miniaturized systems for cancer biomarkers detection

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Applications of Metals and Metal Compounds in Improving the Sensitivity of Microfluidic Biosensors – A Review

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Efficient isolation of encoded microparticles in a degassed micromold for highly sensitive and multiplex immunoassay with signal amplification

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Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis: Serum Biomarkers and the Potential for Aptamer-Based Biosensors

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Proteomics-on-a-Chip – Microfluidics meets proteomics

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Factors that Affect Quantification in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

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Novel molecularly imprinted nanogel modified microfluidic paper-based SERS substrate for simultaneous detection of bisphenol A and bisphenol S traces in plastics

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Highly Sensitive Plasmonic Paper Substrate Fabricated Via Amphiphilic Polymer Self-Assembly in Single Droplet for Detection of Emerging Pollutants

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Toward a New Era of SERS and TERS at the Nanometer Scale: From Fundamentals to Innovative Applications

Tamitake Itoh, Marek Procházka, Zhen-Chao Dong, Wei Ji, Yuko S. Yamamoto, Yao Zhang and Yukihiro Ozaki

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Novel Detection Method for Circulating EGFR Tumor DNA Using Gravitationally Condensed Gold Nanoparticles and Catalytic Walker DNA

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SERS probes for cancer detection: Innovations and applications

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Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs): emerging biomaterials for cancer theragnostic applications

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SERS-guided photodynamic therapy: pioneering strategies in advanced cancer diagnosis and treatment

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Label-Free Sensing with Metal Nanostructure-Based Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Cancer Diagnosis

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Gold nanoparticle-decorated hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs@Au) as efficient SERS substrates and photocatalytic tools for ultrasensitive detection and degradation of bisphenol contaminants

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Printed Paper Substrates with Plasmonic and Magnetic Nanoprobes for SERS Detection of Cancer Biomarkers

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Revolutionizing cancer monitoring with carbon-based electrochemical biosensors

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Biosensors for early stroke detection

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