Naked-eye sensitive detection of nuclease activity using positively-charged gold nanoparticles as colorimetric probes.

Positively-charged gold nanoparticles can effectively differentiate long DNA and fragmented DNA, thus providing a simple and visual approach to colorimetric detection of nuclease activity.

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