In 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an important report entitled
“Innovation/Stagnation: Challenge and Opportunity on the Critical Path to New Medical …

Nanotheranostics, the integration of diagnostic and therapeutic function in one system using
the benefits of nanotechnology, is extremely attractive for personalized medicine. Because …

Recently, an interest has developed in designing biomaterials for medical ultrasonics that
can provide the acoustic activity of microbubbles, but with improved stability in vivo and a …

Chemotherapy is an important modality in cancer treatment. The major challenges of recent
works are to improve drug loading, increase selectivity to target cells, and control the precise …

Activatable imaging probes as alternatives to “always on” imaging probes have attracted
more and more attention due to their improved sensitivity and specificity. They are commonly …

Image enhancement: Core–shell MnO@ Mn 3 O 4 urchin‐shaped nanoparticles can be
synthesized by means of an anisotropic etching process and used as a pH‐activatable T 1 …

Nanoparticles have been investigated as drug carriers, because they provide a great
opportunity due to their advantageous features:(i) various formulations using …

Radio‐nanomedicine, or the use of radiolabeled nanoparticles in nuclear medicine, has
attracted much attention in the last few decades. Since the discovery of Cerenkov radiation …

The precision oncology significantly relies on the development of multifunctional agents to
integrate tumor targeting, imaging and therapeutics. In this study, a first small-molecule …

Activatable fluorescence nanoprobes with only one kind of nanomaterial that can act as both
the energy donor and acceptor simultaneously are scarce, but highly desirable for …