Search results for theranostics

Bio & Medicine Jan 8, 2024

Tumor microenvironment-activated nanostructure enables precise multi-modal therapy

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Wu Zhengyan from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration Binzhou Medical University, successfully designed a nanostructure that improves the ...

Bio & Medicine Dec 21, 2023

Researchers develop self-assembling, self-illuminating therapeutic proteins

When it comes to delivering drugs to the body, a major challenge is ensuring that they remain in the area they're treating and continuing to deliver their payload accurately. While major strides have been made in delivering ...

Analytical Chemistry Nov 2, 2023

Excited-multimer mediated supramolecular upconversion on multicomponent lanthanide-organic assemblies

Upconversion (UC) luminescence is a process that converts low-energy photons into higher-energy ones with promising applications in diverse fields. However, known UC mechanisms mainly focus on the energy transfer processes ...

Bio & Medicine Sep 26, 2023

Scientists marry MRI, ultrasound, and optoacoustics for improved medical exams

Physicians and researchers rely on biomedical imaging to examine the structure and function of living tissue. This enables disease diagnostics and experiments that reveal the mechanisms behind pathologies and ways to treat ...

Bio & Medicine Sep 25, 2023

Targeted nanotherapy: Fluorescence-guided photoimmunotherapy to manage peritoneal carcinomatosis

Fluorescence-guided intervention strategies can improve standard therapies to detect and treat microscopic tumors to thereby prevent lethal recurrence. Cancer biologists have made tremendous progress in photoimmunotherapy ...

Bio & Medicine Sep 14, 2023

Enhancing atherosclerosis diagnosis using ultrasmall calcium carbonate nanoparticles

Atherosclerosis is characterized by the hardening of blood vessels, especially certain arteries, due to the local buildup of fibers and lipids (mainly cholesterol) in the inner wall of an artery, causing it to narrow. It ...

Bio & Medicine Sep 11, 2023

Hybrid nanoparticles shine new light on targeting cancer cells

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a new approach to potentially detect and kill cancer cells, especially those that form a solid tumor mass. They have created hybrid nanoparticles made of ...

Bio & Medicine Sep 7, 2023

New nanocomplex unleashes the immune system on metastases

A new nanocomplex renders a tumor harmless—and, on top of that, it trains the immune system to detect and eliminate metastases.

Materials Science Aug 14, 2023

Researchers improve production for short-lived scandium radioisotopes

Scandium radioisotopes are potentially useful for medical imaging such as positron emission tomography (PET) scans. However, health care providers do not currently use these isotopes to image cancer because they are difficult ...

Bio & Medicine Aug 4, 2023

Novel liquid metal nanoparticles for cancer photoimmunotherapy synthesized

Liquid metals (LM) such as pure gallium (Ga) and Ga-based alloys are a new class of materials with unique physicochemical properties. One of the most prominent applications of LMs is photothermal therapy against cancer, in ...

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