Light: a magical tool for controlled drug delivery

Y Tao, HF Chan, B Shi, M Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Light is a particularly appealing tool for on‐demand drug delivery due to its noninvasive
nature, ease of application, and exquisite temporal and spatial control. Great progress is …

Photoresponsive biomaterials for targeted drug delivery and 4D cell culture

ER Ruskowitz, CA DeForest - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Biological signalling is regulated through a complex and tightly choreographed interplay
between cells and their extracellular matrix. The spatiotemporal control of these interactions …

Upconversion luminescence-activated DNA nanodevice for ATP sensing in living cells

J Zhao, J Gao, W Xue, Z Di, H **ng… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Designer DNA nanodevices have attracted extensive interest for detection of specific targets
in living cells. However, it still remains a great challenge to construct DNA sensing devices …

A NIR light gated DNA nanodevice for spatiotemporally controlled imaging of microRNA in cells and animals

J Zhao, H Chu, Y Zhao, Y Lu, L Li - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nanodevices have potential as intelligent sensing systems for detection of microRNAs
(miRNAs) in living cells. However, the resolution offered by “always active” nanodevices is …

Precision-guided missile-like DNA nanostructure containing warhead and guidance control for aptamer-based targeted drug delivery into cancer cells in vitro and in …

C Ouyang, S Zhang, C Xue, X Yu, H Xu… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
It is crucial to deliver anticancer drugs to target cells with high precision and efficiency. While
nanomaterials have been shown to enhance the delivery efficiency once they reach the …

Inducible degradation of oncogenic nucleolin using an aptamer-based PROTAC

M Chen, P Zhou, Y Kong, J Li, Y Li… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
While proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are showing promise for targeting
previously undruggable molecules, their application has been limited by difficulties in …

NIR-light-mediated spatially selective triggering of anti-tumor immunity via upconversion nanoparticle-based immunodevices

H Chu, J Zhao, Y Mi, Z Di, L Li - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Immunomodulatory therapies are becoming a paradigm-shifting treatment modality for
cancer. Despite promising clinical results, cancer immunotherapy is accompanied with off …

An orthogonally regulatable DNA nanodevice for spatiotemporally controlled biorecognition and tumor treatment

Z Di, B Liu, J Zhao, Z Gu, Y Zhao, L Li - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
Despite the potential of nanodevices for intelligent drug delivery, it remains challenging to
develop controllable therapeutic devices with high spatial-temporal selectivity. Here, we …

NIR-light triggered dual-cascade targeting core-shell nanoparticles enhanced photodynamic therapy and immunotherapy

D Wei, Y Chen, Y Huang, P Li, Y Zhao, X Zhang, J Wan… - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Cell and organelle targeting of nanomedicines are two cascade processes that lead to drug
internalization and subsequent enrichment on the final target. However, it is still challenging …

Development of light‐activated CRISPR using guide RNAs with photocleavable protectors

PK Jain, V Ramanan, AG Schepers… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to remotely trigger CRISPR/Cas9 activity would enable new strategies to study
cellular events with greater precision and complexity. In this work, we have developed a …