Advances in Bioactive Nanoparticles and Cancer: From Biomarker Discovery to Drug Delivery
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Nanoscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 273
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biomarker discovery; extracellular vesicles; biosensors; microanalytical systems; protein/peptide microarrays; bioactive peptides; single-molecule detection; biotechnology
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Dear Colleagues,
The function of bioactive nanoparticles, whose properties are strictly connected to their nanoscale size, physical structure and surface properties, is exploited by interacting with cellular systems; these particles can either be natural, like extracellular particles, or artificial, like liposomes and polymeric or supramolecular-based materials. Furthermore, nanoparticles can be engineered to improve their stability and functionalities, such as cellular targeting or drug loading. They can be used in a wide range of applications, from biosensing to cancer immunotherapy. Among them, extracellular vesicles (EVs) are natural nanoparticles released by cells in biofluids. In recent year, EVs have been widely studied for biomarker discovery, and many advances have been made in the field of cancer diagnosis.
The present Special Issue “Advances in Bioactive Nanoparticles and Cancer: From Biomarker Discovery to Drug Delivery” includes—but is not limited to—topics in the field of EV-associated biomarker discovery, as well as innovative technologies based on the use of nanoparticles for biomarker discovery in cancer diagnosis and the synthesis and functionalization of nanoparticles for drug delivery in cancer therapy. Original research papers and reviews on the application of bioactive nanoparticles in either cancer diagnosis or treatment are welcome.
Dr. Paola Gagni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanoparticles
- extracellular particles
- extracellular vesicles
- nanocarriers
- drug delivery
- biosensing
- biomarker discovery
- nanomedicine
- liquid biopsy
- advanced diagnostics
- cancer
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