Exploring and understanding biological and pathological changes are of great significance
for early diagnosis and therapy of diseases. Optical sensing and imaging approaches have …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) provides significantly enhanced Raman
scattering signals from molecules adsorbed on plasmonic nanostructures, as well as the …

The Raman spectrum of living cells and microorganisms contains highly specific fingerprint‐
like signatures, useful in unequivocally identifying different species and interpreting …

Proteins are large, complex molecules responsible for various biological processes.
However, protein misfolding may lead to various life-threatening diseases. Therefore, it is …

Raman spectroscopy has become an essential tool for chemists, physicists, biologists and
materials scientists. In this article, we present the challenges in unravelling the molecule …

Raman spectroscopy is an emerging technique in bioanalysis and imaging of biomaterials
owing to its unique capability of generating spectroscopic fingerprints. Imaging cells and …

Enzyme‐activatable ratiometric near‐infrared (NIR) fluorescent probes enabling
noninvasive imaging of enzyme activity in vivo are promising for biomedical research; …

The technique of Raman tweezers microspectroscopy (RTM) for the global biomolecular
content characterization of a single extracellular vesicle (EV) or a small number of EVs or …

As key characteristic molecules, several H2S-activated probes have been explored for colon
cancer studies. However, a few ratiometric fluorescence (FL) probes with NIR-II emissions …

Therapies based on injecting living cells into patients offer a huge potential to cure many
degenerative and deadly diseases, with hundreds of clinical trials ongoing. Due to their …