Photochemical stability is one of the most important parameters that determine the
usefulness of organic dyes in different applications. This Review addresses key factors that …

As a functional dye, cyanine dye promotes the widespread application of bioprobes in the
fields of medicine, genetics and environment, owing to its advantages of good photophysical …

The practical application of organic fluorophores in bioimaging is severely limited due to
their generally poor stability. In this Highlight, we emphasize several representative …

Nucleic acid staining dyes are important tools for the analysis and visualizing of DNA/RNA in
vitro and in the cells. Nevertheless, the range of commercially accessible dyes is still rather …

G-Quadruplexes (GQs) serve as popular recognition elements for DNA aptasensors and are
incorporated into a DNA nanodevice capable of controlled conformational changes to …

Fluorescent DNA probes were prepared in a modular approach using the “click” post-
synthetic modification strategy. The new glycol-based module and DNA building block place …

Two green fluorescent tetrazine‐modified cyanine‐styryl dyes were synthesized for
bioorthogonal labelling of DNA by means of the Diels‐Alder reaction with inverse electron …

A new set of cyanine-indole dyes was synthesized, characterized by optical and cytotoxic
properties and subsequently applied for live cell imaging. Furthermore, these dyes were …

Fluorescence-based methods are important tools for the analysis of nucleic acids in vitro
and in cells. In this study, two cationic cyanine–styryl derivatives were produced using a two …

We demonstrate the ability to distinguish Pb2+ from K+ within the central cavity of the
antiparallel G-quadruplex (GQ) DNA produced by the thrombin binding aptamer (TBA) using …