Potential of Aptamers for Using in Police Missions

Aptamers are single stranded RNA or DNA oligonucleotides with noticeable affinity to their specific targets. This characteristic of aptamers is comparable to antibody-antigen interaction. Aptamers are selected by an in vitro process called SELEX. This process lead to selection of high affinity sequences to a special target. Since aptamers are high- affinity selective-acting compounds, they have lots of applications in different fields of science. Drugs sensing, poison and medicine sensing, bioterrorism agent assessment, and tracing the residual of warfare agents in the environment are some of related application of aptamers to police and military services. This paper will review the previously reported papers in the field of aptamers with the potential of using in the police missions.