Live cell discrimination is the first and essential step to understand complex biosystems.
Conventional cell discrimination involving various antibodies relies on selective surface …

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging has emerged as a powerful technique for the high resolution
visualization of biological processes within deep tissue. Through the development and …

Cancer stem cells (CSCs), also called tumor-initiating cells (TICs), have been studied
intensively due to their rapid proliferation, migration, and role in the recurrence of cancer. In …

Optoacoustic imaging is a hybrid biomedical imaging modality which collects ultrasound
waves generated via photoexciting contrast agents in tissues and produces images of high …

Heptamethine cyanine dyes, typified by indocyanine green, have been extensively
employed as bioimaging indicators and theranostic agents. Significant efforts have been …

Fluorescent probes have been used widely in bioimaging, including biological substance
detection, cell imaging, in vivo biochemical reaction process tracking, and disease …

Small organic molecules with absorption and/or fluorescence emission in the second near-
infrared (NIR-II, 1000–1700 nm) bio-window attracted much attention in the past decades …

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a persistent concern in drug discovery and clinical
medicine. The current clinical methods to assay DILI by analyzing the enzymes in serum are …

Breast cancer consists of heterogenic subpopulations, which determine the prognosis and
response to chemotherapy. Among these subpopulations, a very limited number of cancer …

Heart failure is a global health problem that affects approximately 26 million people
worldwide. As conventional diagnostic techniques for heart failure have been in practice …