Luminescent quantum dots for multiplexed biological detection and imaging.

By W. Chan, Dustin J. Maxwell, Xiaohu Gao, R. Bailey, Mingyong Han, Shuming Nie. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2002

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Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology

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In Materials Chemistry

1. Xiaohua Huang
2. P. Jain
3. M. El-Sayed
4. I. El-Sayed
5. Shuming Nie
6. P. Mukherjee
7. Xiaohu Gao
8. H. Mattoussi

In Molecular Biology

1. M. El-Sayed
2. Xiaohua Huang
3. P. Jain
4. I. El-Sayed
5. H. Mattoussi
6. Sanjiv Sam Gambhir
7. Naomi J. Halas
8. Jennifer L. West

Citations in the corpus

• Molecular imaging in living subjects: seeing fundamental biological processes in a new light. (2003, background): “Multiplexing with differently colored quantum dots could allow simultaneous imaging of many molecular targets (Chan et al. 2002).”
• AKAP signalling complexes: focal points in space and time (2004, background): “MULTIPLEX IMAGING WITH QUANTUM DOTS (luminescent nanoparticles that are characterized by narrow emission spectra, resistance to photobleaching and high quantum efficienc”
• Gold nanoparticles: interesting optical properties and recent applications in cancer diagnostics and therapy. (2007, background): “In the context of fluorescence-based imaging techniques, the semiconductor quantum dots, which show stronger, narrower and more tunable emission, offer much more sensitive and efficient imaging [1–13].”
• Imaging and cancer: A review (2008, background): “…et al., 2003), X-ray/CT (Srinivas et al., 2002; Rabin et al., 2006; Hainfeld et al., 2006), optical (Itoh and Osamura, 2007; Gao et al., 2005; Chan et al., 2002; Min-Ho Lee, 2006) and ultrasound imaging (Liu et al., 2006, 2007; Wheatley et al., 2006) Nanoparticles are being developed as…”
• The use of microorganisms for the formation of metal nanoparticles and their application (2005, background): “These luminescent quantum dots are emerging as a new class of materials for biological detection and cell imaging (Chan et al. 2002), based on the conjugation of semiconducting quantum dots and biorecognition molecules.”