This review presents a robust strategy to design photosensitizers (PSs) for various species.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a photochemical-based treatment approach that involves the …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT), a therapeutic mode involving light triggering, has been
recognized as an attractive oncotherapy treatment. However, nonnegligible challenges …

There has been emerging interest in the exploitation of the photophysical and
photochemical properties of transition metal complexes for diagnostic and therapeutic …

Therapeutic systems with site‐specific pharmaceutical activation hold great promise to
enhance therapeutic efficacy while reducing systemic toxicity in cancer therapy. With …

To investigate the potential of tumor-targeting photoactivated chemotherapy, a chiral
ruthenium-based anticancer warhead, Λ/Δ-[Ru (Ph2phen) 2 (OH2) 2] 2+, was conjugated to …

The increasing impact of cancer on worldwide mortality makes the research of novel
chemotherapeutic agents a current and challenging issue. In the recent years, transition …

Conventional photocages only respond to short wavelength light, which is a significant
obstacle to developing efficient phototherapy in vivo. The development of photocages …

Light is a uniquely powerful tool for controlling molecular events in biology. No other
external input (eg, heat, ultrasound, magnetic field) can be so tightly focused or so highly …

Photodynamic hydrogel biomaterials have demonstrated great potential for user-triggered
therapeutic release, patterned organoid development, and four-dimensional control over …

Based on spin‐orbit charge transfer intersystem crossing mechanism, two heavy‐atom‐free
photosensitizers (PSs) BDP1/BDP2 with absorption maxima at 506 nm/660 nm were …