Optical imaging is an indispensable tool in clinical diagnostics and fundamental biomedical
research. Autofluorescence-free optical imaging, which eliminates real-time optical …

Photoluminescence (PL) imaging has become a fundamental tool in disease diagnosis,
therapeutic evaluation, and surgical navigation applications. However, it remains a big …

Here we report a simple all-nucleic-acid enzyme-free catalyzed hairpin assembly assisted
amplification strategy with quantum dots (QDs) as the nanoscale signal reporter for …

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are a crucial biomarker for early cancer diagnosis and
progress of cancer metastasis. However, the extremely rare CTCs with large amounts of …

Accurate and sensitive analysis of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in human blood provides a
non-invasive approach for the evaluation of cancer metastasis and early cancer diagnosis …

Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) doped with lanthanides can convert near-infrared
excitation into UV and visible emissions. Because of their relatively high emission efficiency …

Biosensing of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is of vital significance in cancer theranostics.
Thus, the development of highly efficient luminescent nano-bioprobes is imperative to meet …

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) detach from primary or metastatic lesions and circulate in the
peripheral blood, which is considered to be the cause of distant metastases. CTC analysis in …

The effective enrichment and hypersensitivity analysis of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in
clinical whole blood samples are highly significant for clinical tumor liquid biopsy. In this …

Conspectus Tremendous progress in nanomaterial and nanotechnology has been made in
recent years, which greatly contributes to the development of inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) …