Carcinoma of the lungs is among the most menacing forms of malignancy and has a poor
prognosis, with a low overall survival rate due to delayed detection and ineffectiveness of …

The last decade has witnessed enormous advances in the development and application of
nanotechnology in cancer detection, diagnosis, and therapy culminating in the development …

The brief history of photodynamic therapy (PDT) research has been focused on
photosensitizers (PSs) and light delivery was introduced recently. The appropriate PSs were …

Femtosecond laser-induced fragmentation of gold nanoparticles in water is examined.
Numerical calculations are performed to elucidate the roles of thermal and electrostatic …

The association of PhotoSensitizer (PS) molecules with nanoparticles (NPs) forming
photosensitizing NPs, has emerged as a therapeutic strategy to improve PS tumor targeting …

Over recent decades, one of the most important and complex problems facing our society is
the multi-drug resistance of human cancer cells and pathogens to most clinically approved …

Bacterial infections of the pulmonary system are increasing. With almost half of today's
infections being caused by strains of bacteria that are resistant to existing conventional …

We report results of noncellular tests, revealing the occurrence of photocatalytic interactions
between titanium dioxide (TiO2, titania) nanoparticles and the MTT [3-(4, 5-Dimethylthiazol-2 …

Cancer stem cells are believed to be the basis for tumor initiation, development, metastasis
and recurrence; are resistant to most traditional therapies (eg, chemotherapy and …

Most of the therapeutic strategies to counteract cancer imply killing of malignant cells. The
most exploited cell death mechanism in cancer therapies is apoptosis, but recently, a lot of …