Fluorescence polarization (FP) assays play an important role in the detection of chemical
contaminants in food and environmental due to a number of key advantages since last …

Introduction: Fluorescence anisotropy (FA) is one of the major established methods
accepted by industry and regulatory agencies for understanding the mechanisms of drug …

Nanomaterials have great potential to offer effective treatment against devastating diseases
by providing sustained release of high concentrations of therapeutic agents locally …

Measuring temperature in cells and tissues remotely, with sufficient sensitivity, and in real
time presents a new paradigm in engineering, chemistry and biology. Traditional sensors …

Self‐aggregation of dyes even at low concentrations poses a considerable challenge in
preparing sufficiently bright molecular probes for in vivo imaging, particularly in the …

Spectrally resolved confocal microscopy and fluorescence lifetime imaging have been used
to measure the polarity of lipid-rich regions in living HeLa cells stained with Nile red. The …

The electronic absorption spectra of the symmetric cyanines exhibit dramatic dependence
on the conjugated chain length: whereas short-chain homologues are characterized by the …

Targeted molecular imaging allows specific visualization and monitoring of tumors. Cancer-
specific peptides have been developed for imaging and therapy. Peptides that specifically …

The successful development of degradable polymeric nanostructures as optical probes for
use in nanotheranostic applications requires the intelligent design of materials such that …

In order to identify the optimal imaging conditions for the highest spatial contrast in biological
tissue, we explored the properties of a tissue-mimicking phantom as a function of the …