“…Along with this, the many unique characteristics of aptamers include, but are not limited to, longer shelf lives, simpler surface modifications, minor batch variations, and cost-effectiveness, which have led to significant efforts toward the development of aptasensors [9,10]. Figure 1 presents a chronological chart of key review article developments over the last decade on a range of important topics starting from the origin of aptamers [6,7] and aptasensors [10], along with pioneering review articles such as aptasensors in clinical diagnostics [11], for multi-analyte detection [12], biomedical applications of quantum dots [13], nanoparticles application in high-sensitive aptasensor design [14], aptasensors for organic pollutants and food and environment monitoring [15,16], aptasensors for prostate-antigen detection [17], disease-associated analyses of aptasensors [18], cytokine detection [19], and a recent article on Parkinson's disease-biomarkers-based aptasensors [20]. It is evident from this analysis that this review article is timely and needed to fill in the gap for a detailed analysis on recent advances and applications of specialized detection strategies that have gained less attention in the field of apta-biosensors, along with presenting a perspective and future directive for presenting the readers with a comprehensive review.…”