Intracellular delivery is a key step in biological research and has enabled decades of
biomedical discoveries. It is also becoming increasingly important in industrial and medical …

This review highlights various methods that can be used for a sensitive detection of nucleic
acids without using thermal cycling procedures, as is done in PCR or LCR. Topics included …

Singlet oxygen, although integral to photodynamic therapy, is notoriously uncontrollable,
suffers from poor selectivity and has fast decomposition rates in biological media. Across the …

This feature article discusses synthetic metal complexes that are capable of catalyzing
chemical transformations in living organisms. Photodynamic therapy exemplifies what is …

The programmability of oligonucleotide recognition offers an attractive platform to direct the
assembly of reactive partners that can engage in chemical reactions. Recently, significant …

A cobalt chlorin complex (CoII (Ch)) efficiently and selectively catalyzed two-electron
reduction of dioxygen (O2) by one-electron reductants (ferrocene derivatives) to produce …

The light‐triggered, programmable rupture of cell‐sized vesicles is described, with particular
emphasis on self‐assembled polymersome capsules. The mechanism involves a hypotonic …

Reactions templated by cellular nucleic acids are attractive for nucleic acid sensing or
responsive systems. Herein we report the use of a photocatalyzed reductive cleavage of an …

Nucleic acid directed bioorthogonal reactions offer the fascinating opportunity to unveil and
redirect a plethora of intracellular mechanisms. Nano‐to picomolar amounts of specific RNA …

Potential biomedicinal applications of graphene oxide (GO), for example, as a carrier of
biomolecules or a reagent for photothermal therapy and biosensing, are limited by its …