An all-deoxyribonucleic acid circuit for detection of human telomerase activity in solution and on paper
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
We report on the design of a simple all-DNA circuit with dual functions of signal amplification and signal reporting and its use for detection of human telomerase activity from cancer cells. The system utilizes a catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA) reaction for amplification, which produces split G-quadruplex outputs that assemble to form complete guanine quadruplex structures as reporting modules. As designed, a linear DNA sequence (the target) functions as a catalyst to drive cyclic programmed assembly of two hairpins, producing a DNA duplex with two guanine-rich sequences that assemble to form a complete Gq structure. The formation of the Gq element allows either fluorescence or colorimetric detection of the target. Examples are provided to demonstrate fluorescence detection of cancer cells’ telomerase activities in solution and the first example of a CHA-modulated colorimetric assay for detecting telomerase activities of cancer cells using a simple paper device.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it