“…Derived from the simple and inexpensive platform offered by electrochemical DNA sensing, a more sensitive analytical strategy has been proposed, namely, the ECL-based DNA detection. ECL based on Ru(bpy) 3 2+ and its analogues has been widely used in detection of many important analytes including metal ions, bioactive small molecules, drugs, protein, DNA, bacteria, cancer cells and so on with high selectivity and sensitivity [65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,…”