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Bioactive photosensitizers in photodynamic therapy (PDT) have emerged as a promising therapeutic approach for tumor treatment. However, the aggregation of photosensitizers in aqueous solutions could hinder their efficacy, leading to reduced generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in biological systems and lower therapeutic effectiveness. For the first time, this work discloses a programmed aggregation system based on the nitrobenzoselenadiazole (NBSD) scaffold with varying alkyl chain lengths (C1, C3, and C8), focusing on their potential as photo-activable pyroptosis inducers. This study underscores the significance of molecular design in developing effective photosensitizers and marks a new era in controlling molecular packing and photophysical properties. Among the candidates, NBSD-NOc exhibits superior performances in several areas: (i) aggregation-enhanced PDT effect, (ii) high cellular uptake, (iii) induction of programmed cell death, (iv) implantable properties, and (v) high biocompatibility. Overall, this work highlights the critical balance between aggregation patterns and photophysical properties, presenting a promising strategy for post-surgical management using implantable photosensitizers to address the potential challenge of tumor recurrence.
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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
September 2025
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China.
Enhancing the energy conversion efficiency of fuel cells necessitates optimization of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) under high-voltage conditions through improved Pt catalysis. This study introduces an electrocatalyst that uniformly anchors a high loading (40 wt%) of small Pt nanoparticles (3.2 nm) on a novel support: tellurium and nitrogen co-mediated graphitized mesoporous carbon (Te-N-GMC).
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September 2025
GuangDong Engineering Technology Research Center of Antibody Drug and Immunoassay, Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.
Illicit drug abuse poses a significant global threat to public health and social security, highlighting the urgent need for rapid, sensitive, and versatile detection technologies. To address the limitations of traditional chromatographic techniques-such as high costs and slow response times-and the drawbacks of conventional immunochromatographic sensors (ICS), including low sensitivity and non-intuitive signal outputs, a fluorescence-quenching ICS (FQICS) was developed. This sensor leverages fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between aggregation-induced emission fluorescent microspheres (AIEFMs) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs).
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September 2025
Vitalant Innovation Center, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Background And Objectives: The US Food and Drug Administration guidance for cold-stored platelets (CSPs) permits storage of apheresis platelets at 1-6°C for ≤14 days. During a pilot programme, CSPs were evaluated in a large US blood centre over a 10-month period (September 2023 to July 2024) to better understand the formation of aggregates under routine use.
Materials And Methods: Platelets collected in 100% plasma were moved into cold storage within 4 h of collection and shipped to local hospitals.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed
September 2025
Key Laboratory of Social Computing and Cognitive Intelligence (Ministry of Education), Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China; School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China. Electronic address:
Background And Objective: Few-shot learning has emerged as a key technological solution to address challenges such as limited data and the difficulty of acquiring annotations in medical image classification. However, relying solely on a single image modality is insufficient to capture conceptual categories. Therefore, medical image classification requires a comprehensive approach to capture conceptual category information that aids in the interpretation of image content.
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September 2025
Children's Hospital of Michigan, Division of Hematology/Oncology.
Glanzmann thrombasthenia (GT) is a rare autosomal recessive platelet disorder characterized by abnormalities in platelet aggregation, resulting from quantitative or qualitative defects in integrins αIIb and β3. Currently, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is the only potentially curative therapeutic approach for severe GT. In this report, we present 2 children with GT that underwent successful allo-HSCT, along with 2008 to 2022 data from the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research and a summary of the existing literature providing further evidence that allo-HSCT can be a curative approach that prevents severe and life-threatening bleeding in GT.
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