Credit: Diana Sousa, Michael Hall
TEM images of the mesoporous silica nanoparticles
Credit: Catarina Martins
Breast cancer spheroid. Credit: Jhenifer Oliveira
Credit: Jhenifer Oliveira
Credit: L. Di Filippo, B. Mendes
Credit: L. Di Filippo
Hydrogels for urogenital infections. Credit: B. Mendes, J. Conniot
PhotoThermal performance of gold nanorods. Credit: R. Prasad, B. Mendes
Hyaluronic acid hydrogels for pancreatic cancer. Credit: J. Conniot, B. Mendes, J. Ravasco
lung metastasis from melanoma
Colon cancer cells full of gold nanoantennas (green)
Nanovesicles for monitoring metastasis
Credit: Bárbara Mendes, João Conniot, Diana Sousa
Electron microscopy image of cancer cell
Credit: Marta Santos
Photothermal images of NIR irradiated gold nanostars. Credit: Alessia Privitera
Credit: Bárbara Mendes, João Conniot
Credit: Bárbara Mendes, João Conniot
Credit: Jhenifer Oliveira, Bárbara Mendes
In vivo X-ray computed tomography 3D scans
Mice induced with Glioblastome multiforme cells
Gold Nanoparticles-miRs (red) invade cells (green) and relocate to the nucleus (blue) in 3D human cell culture model
Colorectal tumor (in red) on zebrafish larvae
Histology image of mice brain implanted with therapeutic hydrogels for glioblastoma
Confocal microscopy image of zebrafish larvae bearing colon cancer tumors (in red)
High-resolution SEM image of RNA triple-helix microstructures
siRNA nanoparticles (green) scavenged by tumour-associated macrophages expressing VEGF (red), a protein that helps tumours form new blood vessels to get nutrients
Dual-colour hydrogel scaffolds made of RNA-triple-helix nanoconjugates pre-incubated with complementary miR targets
Breast cancer cells (in red) internalized by miRNA-gold nanoparticles (in green).
Cryosection of dendrimer–dextran adhesive hydrogel depicting adhesive morphology. Red spots represent the triple-helix nanoparticles.
Colorectal cancer cells transfected with siRNA gold nanoparticles
High-resolution SEM image of RNA triple-helix microstructures
Tumor tissue impregnated with smart gold nanorods (in green) and gold nanospheres (in red).
Thermal imaging of mice implanted with a gel doped with smart nanorods that can heat up when illuminated in NIR
TEM image of +/- 20 nm gold nanoparticles
ATR-FTIR image of nanobeacons accumulated on lung tissue.
Gold nanobeacons (in red) able to image and detect a gastric tumor in vivo
Intracellular uptake of PAMAM dendrimers on cancer cells
Implantable hydrogel embedded dark-gold nanoswitch as a theranostic probe to sense and overcome cancer multidrug resistance.
Dark-field imaging of cells internalized with PEG-gold nanoparticles.