Over the last few decades, various forms of regulated cell death (RCD) have been
discovered and were found to improve cancer treatment. Although there are several reviews …

Cancer has emerged over the last decades as one of the deadliest diseases in the world.
Among the most commonly used techniques (ie surgery, immunotherapy, radiotherapy or …

There has been emerging interest in the exploitation of the photophysical and
photochemical properties of transition metal complexes for diagnostic and therapeutic …

Metal agents have made incredible strides in preclinical research and clinical applications in
recent years, but their short emission/absorption wavelengths continue to be a barrier to …

Metals play vital roles in nutrients and medicines and provide chemical functionalities that
are not accessible to purely organic compounds. At least 10 metals are essential for human …

Photoactivatable (alternatively, photoremovable, photoreleasable, or photocleavable)
protecting groups (PPGs), also known as caged or photocaged compounds, are used to …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT) are therapeutic
techniques based on a photosensitizer (PS) and light. These techniques allow the spatial …

Micro-/nanorobots (MNRs) can be autonomously propelled on demand in complex
biological environments and thus may bring revolutionary changes to biomedicines …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) utilizes light-activated photosensitizers (PSs) to generate toxic
species for therapeutics. It has become an emerging solution for cancer treatment because …

Prodrugs are chemically modified drug molecules that are inactive before administration.
After administration, they are converted in situ to parent drugs and induce the mechanism of …