Cancer nanomedicine: progress, challenges and opportunities

J Shi, PW Kantoff, R Wooster, OC Farokhzad - Nature reviews cancer, 2017 - nature.com
The intrinsic limits of conventional cancer therapies prompted the development and
application of various nanotechnologies for more effective and safer cancer treatment …

Intravital imaging to study cancer progression and metastasis

D Entenberg, MH Oktay, JS Condeelis - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Navigation through the bulk tumour, entry into the blood vasculature, survival in the
circulation, exit at distant sites and resumption of proliferation are all steps necessary for …

Tumour-associated macrophages act as a slow-release reservoir of nano-therapeutic Pt (IV) pro-drug

MA Miller, YR Zheng, S Gadde, C Pfirschke… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Therapeutic nanoparticles (TNPs) aim to deliver drugs more safely and effectively to
cancers, yet clinical results have been unpredictable owing to limited in vivo understanding …

Engineering and physical sciences in oncology: challenges and opportunities

MJ Mitchell, RK Jain, R Langer - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
The principles of engineering and physics have been applied to oncology for nearly 50
years. Engineers and physical scientists have made contributions to all aspects of cancer …

Nano-palladium is a cellular catalyst for in vivo chemistry

MA Miller, B Askevold, H Mikula, RH Kohler… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Palladium catalysts have been widely adopted for organic synthesis and diverse industrial
applications given their efficacy and safety, yet their biological in vivo use has been limited …

Heterogeneity of macrophage infiltration and therapeutic response in lung carcinoma revealed by 3D organ imaging

MF Cuccarese, JM Dubach, C Pfirschke… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Involvement of the immune system in tumour progression is at the forefront of cancer
research. Analysis of the tumour immune microenvironment has yielded a wealth of …

Anti-microtubule drugs

S Florian, TJ Mitchison - The Mitotic Spindle: Methods and Protocols, 2016 - Springer
Small molecule drugs that target microtubules (MTs), many of them natural products, have
long been important tools in the MT field. Indeed, tubulin (Tb) was discovered, in part, as the …

Advancing biomedical imaging

R Weissleder, M Nahrendorf - Proceedings of the National …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Imaging reveals complex structures and dynamic interactive processes, located deep inside
the body, that are otherwise difficult to decipher. Numerous imaging modalities harness …

Spatial analysis of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and toxicology using mass spectrometry imaging

ML Spruill, M Maletic-Savatic, H Martin, F Li… - Biochemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is emerging as a powerful analytical tool for detection,
quantification, and simultaneous spatial molecular imaging of endogenous and exogenous …

Imaging approaches to optimize molecular therapies

R Weissleder, MC Schwaiger, SS Gambhir… - Science translational …, 2016 - science.org
Imaging, including its use for innovative tissue sampling, is slowly being recognized as
playing a pivotal role in drug development, clinical trial design, and more effective delivery …