Photodynamic therapy is an alternative treatment mainly for cancer but also for bacterial
infections. This treatment dates back to 1900 when a German medical school graduate …

Cancer remains a main public health issue and the second cause of mortality worldwide.
Photodynamic therapy is a clinically approved therapeutic option. Effective photodynamic …

Carbohydrates are of great importance in a variety of biological processes, including but not
limited to, energy production, energy storage, protein recognition, immune response, and …

Despite specialists' efforts to find the best solutions for cancer diagnosis and therapy, this
pathology remains the biggest health threat in the world. Global statistics concerning deaths …

Glycoporphyrins are an important subclass of the porphyrin family of compounds. They have
been intensively studied because of their biological importance, ie they exhibit increased …

Within this work, a new class of sequence‐defined heteromultivalent glycomacromolecules
bearing lactose residues and nonglycosidic motifs for probing glycoconjugate recognition in …

Galactose as a recognizing motif for asialoglycoprotein receptor (ASGPR) is a widely
accepted vector to deliver cytotoxic agents in the therapy of hepatocellular carcinoma …

Bioorthogonal chemistry has been a powerful tool in chemical biology. It can facilitate the
study of biomolecules in their native environments and enables targeted delivery and …

Here, we have synthesized and characterized a novel activatable photosensitizer (PS) 8a in
which two well-designed boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) derivatives are utilized as the …

The synthesis of water-soluble thioglycosylated A2B2 type porphyrins and their zinc (II)
complexes is reported. The water-soluble trans-A2B2 porphyrins were synthesized in two …