Search results for theranostics

Bio & Medicine Jun 23, 2022

New nanoparticle drug delivery system improves treatment of atherosclerosis

Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute researchers have designed and developed a novel drug delivery method that can vastly improve the efficacy of a drug used to treat atherosclerosis and has the potential to identify and treat ...

Biochemistry Apr 29, 2022

Biomedical polymers: Synthesis, properties, and applications

Biomedical polymers have been extensively developed for promising applications in a lot of biomedical fields, such as drug delivery, disease detection/diagnosis, biosensing, regenerative medicine, and disease treatment. For ...

Bio & Medicine Apr 19, 2022

Researchers develop near-infrared responsive nanoassemblies for combined breast cancer therapy

Recently, researchers from the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (SIBET) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and South China University of Technology collaborated to develop a near-infrared (NIR)-driven ...

Bio & Medicine Mar 30, 2022

Inorganic nanozymes acting as therapeutic and contrast agents in MRI and PET scanning

The CIC biomaGUNE Molecular and Functional Biomarkers group has developed a rapid, cost-effective, synthetic, microwave method for producing ultra-small manganese ferrite nanoparticles that act as advanced, multimodal contrast ...

Bio & Medicine Feb 22, 2022

Development of nanoengineered bacteria for cancer optotheranostics

There is substantial interest in understanding and designing of nanoengineered bacteria to combat various fatal cancerous diseases. However, conventional nanotechnological approaches adopt genetic manipulation for attenuating ...

Bio & Medicine Feb 2, 2022

Nanoparticle system that can release fluorescent dyes in pancreatic cancer tumor cell samples

Theranostics have the potential to both diagnose cancers and treat them, all in one package. But it's challenging to tell when—or even if—the package has reached and penetrated a tumor. Now, researchers reporting in JACS ...

Bio & Medicine Jan 18, 2022

Intracellular supramolecular self-assembly regulates cellular function

Supramolecular self-assembly based on noncovalent interactions is considered as a key strategy for introducing intracellular synthetic biocompatible macromolecules. The synthetic macromolecules resemble the nature, behavior, ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 4, 2022

A photoconversion-tunable photosensitizer with diversified excitation and excited-state relaxation pathways

In a paper published in Science China Chemistry, scientists present an orthogonal carbazole-perylene bisimide pentad, which is a photoconversion-tunable photosensitizer with diversified excitation and excited-state relaxation ...

Nanomaterials Dec 7, 2021

Smart transformable nanoparticles promise advances in tumor diagnoses, treatment

For more than three decades, biomedical nanomaterials have been successfully developed for the benefit of theranostics—a compound term referring to the diagnoses and treatment of tumors. The nanoparticles must reach the tumor ...

Bio & Medicine Dec 7, 2021

Researchers develop a world-first antibody-drug delivery system

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: a man-made crystal that can be attached to antibodies and then supercharge them with potent drugs or imaging agents that can seek out diseased cells with the highest precision, ...

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