Light has profoundly impacted modern medicine and healthcare, with numerous
luminescent agents and imaging techniques currently being used to assess health and treat …

Endocytosis is a complex process whereby cell surface proteins, lipids and fluid from the
extracellular environment are packaged, sorted and internalized into cells. Endocytosis is …

Plastics are now omnipresent in our daily lives. The existence of microplastics (1 µm to 5 mm
in length) and possibly even nanoplastics (< 1 μm) has recently raised health concerns. In …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT), which utilizes type I photoreactions, has great potential as an
effective cancer treatment because of its hypoxia‐tolerant superiority over the commonly …

The cellular barriers are major bottlenecks for bioactive compounds entering into cells to
accomplish their biological functions, which limits their biomedical applications …

A key aspect for successful drug delivery via lipid‐based nanoparticles is their
internalization in target cells. Two prominent examples of such drug delivery systems are …

Imprecise targeting of chemotherapeutic drugs often leads to severe toxicity during breast
cancer therapy. To address this issue, we have devised a strategy to load dacarbazine (DC) …

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

Within the past decades, extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as important mediators
of intercellular communication in both prokaryotes and higher eukaryotes to regulate a …

Ultrasmall nanoparticles are often grouped under the broad umbrella term of “nanoparticles”
when reported in the literature. However, for biomedical applications, their small sizes give …