Metal-Organic Frameworks-Based Sensors for Food Safety.

Food contains a variety of poisonous and harmful substances that have an impact on human health. Therefore, food safety is a worldwide public concern. Food detection approaches must ensure the safety of food at every step of the food supply chain by monitoring and evaluating all hazards from every single step of food production.

Study of eighteen typical bisphenol analogues as agonist or antagonist for androgen and glucocorticoid at sub-micromolar concentrations in vitro.

Bisphenol A and its substitutions are commonly used to manufacture epoxy resins, plastic materials and different kinds of daily necessities. In this process, a large number of bisphenol analogues (BPs) are continuously released directly/indirectly into the environment. Through the chain of environment-feed-farmed-animals-livestock and poultry products, BPs present the low concentration but chronic exposure for surroundings and environment.

A competitive fluorescence assay based on free-complementary DNA for ochratoxin A detection.

An ultrasensitive, rapid, and specific method for Ochratoxin A (OTA) detection was designed using complementary sequence to aptamer as a target of molecular beacon (MB). The designed loop structure of the MB has the same sequence as the aptamer with a complementary DNA (cDNA) which translates the level of the target into a measurable response. The presence of the target holds aptamer at the corresponding amount and the additional cDNAs are consumed by unbound aptamers which avails free cDNAs that resulting in fluorescence rising due to unfolding of MBs.