Application of Aptamers in Medicinal Plants

Abstract

From centuries ago, medicinal plants have been used for treatment of passions. Despite considerable improvement and development of synthetic drugs in recent decades, the use of herbal drugs continues to expand quickly across the world for treatment of various health challenges. In most countries medicinal plants and bio drugs are inseparable from synthetic drugs and treatment. Today, economical and marketing aspects of medicinal plants are more considered by bio science companies. Therefore, medicinal plant producers should using high technologies in order to enter and permanent presence in global marketing. As the global use of bio drugs continues to grow and many more new derivatives are introduced into the market, public healthcare issues and concerns surrounding their safety will also increasing. In fact, General healthcare concerns and rigid legislation from governments to import of bio drugs needs analysis and suitable controls of production of medicinal plants. Analyzing of medicinal plants by ordinary methods need to send samples to a laboratory and this process usually is time consuming, expensive, less sensitive and need practiced operator. But, researchers and producers are looking for monitoring farms and processing of medicinal plants using aptamer-based systems as a low cost, fast, sensitive and authentic technique.