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Nanotheranostics, the sister journal of Theranostics, is a multidisciplinary and fully open access journal. Currently, the journal does not charge any publication or submission fees (Platinum open access). Nanotheranostics publishes innovative and original basic, translational and clinical research reflecting the fields of nanomedicine, nanoimaging, drug and gene delivery, nanoelectronic biosensors, and related areas. 

Regular features include high quality research articles, reviews or mini-reviews, rapid communication of preliminary data on innovative research, editorials, and letters to the editor. Educational articles on basic sciences, fundamental aspects and controversy related to pre-clinical and clinical studies or ethical issues of nanomedicine are also welcome. Timely reviews that provide updates on current applications and issues in nanomedicine and translational aspects of nanotheranostics and other topics are particularly welcome and will be given high priority.

Nanotheranostics employs a rigorous peer-review system, but also strives for rapid review turnaround times and is based on the same streamlined submission platform as Theranostics.

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Theranostic Phthalocyanine and Naphthalocyanine Nanoparticles for Photoacoustic Imaging and Photothermal Therapy of Tumors
Yiran Tian, Nicole Carrillo-Malani, Kailin Feng, Joann Miller, Theresa M. Busch, Karthik M. Sundaram, Zhiliang Cheng, Ahmad Amirshaghaghi, Andrew Tsourkas
Nanotheranostics 2024; 8(1): 100-111. doi:10.7150/ntno.88892
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Drug delivery for neurodegenerative diseases is a problem, but lipid nanocarriers could provide the answer
Md. Rajdoula Rafe
Nanotheranostics 2024; 8(1): 90-99. doi:10.7150/ntno.88849
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Gold Polymer Nanomaterials: A Promising Approach for Enhanced Biomolecular Imaging
Panangattukara Prabhakaran Praveen Kumar, Ritu Mahajan
Nanotheranostics 2024; 8(1): 64-89. doi:10.7150/ntno.89087
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Enrichment of sweat-derived extracellular vesicles of human and bacterial origin for biomarker identification
Artem Zhyvolozhnyi, Anatoliy Samoylenko, Geneviève Bart, Anna Kaisanlahti, Jenni Hekkala, Olha Makieieva, Feby Pratiwi, Ilkka Miinalainen, Mika Kaakinen, Ulrich Bergman, Prateek Singh, Tuomas Nurmi, Elham Khosrowbadi, Eslam Abdelrady, Sakari Kellokumpu, Susanna Kosamo, Justus Reunanen, Juha Röning, Jussi Hiltunen, Seppo J. Vainio
Nanotheranostics 2024; 8(1): 48-63. doi:10.7150/ntno.87822
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Fibrin-targeted phase shift microbubbles for the treatment of microvascular obstruction
Soheb Anwar Mohammed, Muhammad Wahab Amjad, Maria F. Acosta, Xucai Chen, Linda Lavery, Dillon Hanrahan, Evan C. Unger, Emmanuelle J. Meuillet, John J. Pacella
Nanotheranostics 2024; 8(1): 33-47. doi:10.7150/ntno.85092
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Review
Choice of Nanoparticles for Theranostics Engineering: Surface Coating to Nanovalves Approach
Rajendra Prasad, Kaliaperumal Selvaraj
Nanotheranostics 2024; 8(1): 12-32. doi:10.7150/ntno.89768
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Three-dimensional in vitro model of bone metastases of neuroblastoma as a tool for pharmacological evaluations
Sanja Aveic, Max Seidelmann, Roswitha Davtalab, Diana Corallo, Michael Vogt, Stephan Rütten, Horst Fischer
Nanotheranostics 2024; 8(1): 1-11. doi:10.7150/ntno.85439
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Review
Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Iron-oxide Nanoparticles in the era of Personalized Medicine
Mahbuba Rahman
Nanotheranostics 2023; 7(4): 424-449. doi:10.7150/ntno.86467
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Editor-in-Chief:
Jonathan Lovell, PhD
SUNY Empire Innovation Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA

Nanotheranostics has been selected by The Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC) for inclusion in MEDLINE, the prestigious index of U.S. National Library of Medicine.


Nanotheranostics is now indexed in the Web of Science, Biological Abstracts and BIOSIS Previews.


Impact score is 4.83, and h-Index is 25 based on information from Resurchify, 2023.
CFP - Special Issue: Exploring the Frontier of Healthcare: Bioinspired and Biomimetic Nanotheranostics. Guest Editors: Drs. Murali M. Yallapu, Ajeet Kaushik, Kaushal Rege, Arpan Pradhan, Anuradha Kumari, Narendra Gupta.
CFP - Special Issue: Translational Nanomedicine and Biosensors. Guest Editors: Drs. Shweta Meena, Asifkhan Shanavas, Arvind K Rengan, Shabir Hassan, Berney Peng, Avtar Singh, Arnab Ghosh, Sunita.
The most significant feature of translational point-of-care technology “Personalized biosensors” is that it can be done quickly and by clinical staff who are not trained in clinical laboratory sciences. Rapid test results can quickly give a doctor or other medical worker answers that can help them decide what to do or how to treat a patient. This is helpful almost everywhere, from the emergency room to a patient getting care at home. When a doctor meets a patient for the first time, during a flare-up of a known problem or when a new symptom shows up in a patient who is already being....
Indocyanine green (ICG) is one of the FDA-approved near infra-red fluorescent (NIRF) probes for cancer imaging and image-guided surgery in the clinical setting. However, the limitations of ICG include poor photostability, high concentration toxicity, short circulation time, and poor cancer cell specificity. To overcome these hurdles, we engineered a nanoconstruct composed of poly (vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP)-indocyanine green that is cloaked self-assembled with tannic acid (termed as indocyanine green-based glow nanoparticles probe, ICG-Glow NPs) for the cancer cell/tissue-specific targeting. The....
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), such as exosomes, are nanovesicles that have received significant attention due to their ability to contain various molecular cargos. EVs found in biological fluids have been demonstrated to have therapeutic potential, including as biomarkers. Despite being extensively studied, a significant downfall in EV research is the lack of standardised protocol for its isolation from human biological fluids, where EVs usually exist at low densities. In this study, we tested two well-established EV isolation protocols, precipitation, and size exclusion chromatography (SEC), to....
Background: The objective of this study was to demonstrate that synchrotron K-edge subtraction tomography (SKES-CT) can simultaneously track therapeutic cells and their encapsulating carrier, in vivo, in a rat model of focal brain injury using a dual-contrast agent approach. The second objective was to determine if SKES-CT could be used as a reference method for spectral photon counting tomography (SPCCT). Methods: Phantoms containing different concentrations of gold and iodine nanoparticles (AuNPS/INPs) were imaged with SKES-CT and SPCCT to assess their performances. A pre-clinical study was performed....