Journal Articles

* denotes equal contribution.

• Xiaoyue Yang, Ying Liang, and Sheng Tong. Advancing Cancer Treatment: In Vivo Delivery of Therapeutic Small Noncoding RNAs. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 10, 1297413, 2023
• Zhongchao Yi, Xiaoyue Yang, Ying Liang, Fanny Chapelin, and Sheng Tong. Enhancing ROS-inducing nanozyme through intraparticle electron transport. Small, 2305974, 2023.
• Linlin Zhang, Samira Hajebrahimi, Sheng Tong, Xueqin Gao, Haizi Cheng, Qingbo Zhang, Daniel T Hinojosa, Kaiyi Jiang, Lin Hong, Johnny Huard, and Gang Bao. Force-Mediated Endocytosis of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Magnetic Targeting of Stem Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023.
• Xiaojing Cui, Cuiping Zhang, Fang Wang, Xinghui Zhao, Shuxia Wang, Jinpeng Liu, Daheng He, Chi Wang, Feng-Chun Yang, Sheng Tong, and Ying Liang. Latexin regulates sex dimorphism in hematopoiesis via gender-specific differential expression of microRNA 98-3p and thrombospondin 1. Cell Reports, 42, 112274, 2023.
• MZ Hasan, J Yan, Z Yi, MO Korfhage, S Tong, and C Zhu. Low-cost compact optical spectroscopy and novel spectroscopic algorithm for point-of-care real-time monitoring of nanoparticle delivery in biological tissue models. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 29 (4: Biophotonics), 1-8, 2022.
• Kaiyi Jiang, Qingbo Zhang, Daniel Torres Hinojosa, Linlin Zhang, Zhen Xiao, Yu Yin, Sheng Tong, Vicki L Colvin, and Gang Bao. Controlled oxidation and surface modification increase heating capacity of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles. Applied Physics Reviews. 8, 031407, 2021. Link
• Linlin Zhang*, Sheng Tong*, Qingbo Zhang, and Gang Bao. Lipid-Encapsulated Fe3O4 Nanoparticles for Multimodal Magnetic Resonance/Fluorescence Imaging. ACS Applied Nano Materials 3 (7), 6785–6797, 2020. Link
• Sheng Tong, Haibao Zhu, and Gang Bao. Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for disease detection and therapy. Materials Today. 31, 86-99, 2019. Link
• Sheng Tong*, Buhle Moyo*, Ciaran M. Lee, Kam Leong, and Gang Bao. Engineered materials for in vivo delivery of genome editing machinery. Nature Reviews Materials, 4, 726-737, 2019. Link
• Joshua Sifford, Kevin J Walsh, Sheng Tong, Gang Bao, and Gunjan Agarwal. Indirect magnetic force microscopy. Nanoscale Advances. 1, 2348-2355, 2019. Link
• Haibao Zhu*, Linlin Zhang*, Sheng Tong*, Ciaran Lee, Harshavardhan Deshmukh, and Gang Bao. Spatial control of in vivo CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing via nanomagnets. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 3, 126-136, 2019. Link
  • Highlighted in Science Translational Medicine, Editor’s choice: Magnets make target cells more attractive to CRISPR. Science Translational Medicine. 10, eaaw0520, 2018.
  • Highlighted in Nature Biomedical Engineering, News and Views: Local magnetic activation of CRISPR. Nature Biomedical engineering. 3, 83-84, 2019.
• Sheng Tong, Christopher Quinto, Priya Mohindra, Linlin Zhang, and Gang Bao. Size-Dependent heating of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles. ACS Nano, 11, 6808-6816, 2017. Link
• Yongzhi Qiu*, Sheng Tong*, Linlin Zhang, Yumiko Sakurai, David R. Myers, Lin Hong, Wilbur Lam, and Gang Bao. Magnetic forces enable controlled drug-delivery by disrupting endothelial cell-cell junctions. Nature Communication, 8, 15994, 2017. Link
• Linlin Zhang*, Sheng Tong*, Jun Zhou, and Gang Bao. Accurate quantification of disease markers in human serum using iron oxide nanoparticle-linked immunosorbent assay. Theranostics, 6, 1353-1361, 2016. Link
• Christopher Quinto, Priya Mohindra, Sheng Tong, and Gang Bao. Multifunctional superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for combined chemotherapy and hyperthermia cancer treatment. Nanoscale 7, 12728-12736, 2015. Link
• Sheng Tong, Eli Fine, Yanni Lin, Thomas Cradick, and Gang Bao. Nanomedicine: Tiny particles and machines give huge gains. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 42, 243-259, 2014. Link
• Han Shen, Sheng Tong, Gang Bao, and Biao Wang. Structural responses of cells on intracellular magnetic force induced by superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 16, 1914-1920, 2014. Link
• Hengte Ke, Jinrui Wang, Sheng Tong, Yushen Jin, Shumin Wang, Enze Qu, Gang Bao, and Zhifei Dai. Gold nanoshelled liquid perfluorocarbon magnetic nanocapsules: a nanotheranostic platform for bimodal ultrasound/magnetic resonance imaging guided photothermal tumor ablation. Theranostics, 4, 12-23, 2014. Link
• Natalia Landázuri*, Sheng Tong*, Jin Suo, Giji Joseph, Daiana Weiss, Diane Sutcliffe, Don Giddens, Gang Bao, and W. Robert Taylor. Magnetic targeting of human mesenchymal stem cells with internalized superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles. Small, 9, 4017-4026, 2013. Link
• Sheng Tong, BinBin Ren, Zhilan Zheng, Han Shen, and Gang Bao. Tiny grains give huge gains – nanocrystal-based signal amplification. ACS Nano, 7, 5142-5150, 2013. Link
• Changjin Huang, Peter J. Butler, Sheng Tong, Hari S. Muddana, Gang Bao, and Sulin Zhang. Substrate stiffness regulates cellular uptake of nanoparticles. Nano Letters. 13, 1611-1615, 2013. Link
• Haiou Qu, Sheng Tong, Kejing Song, Hui Ma, Gang Bao, Seth Pincus, Weilie Zhou, and Charles O'Connor. Controllable in-situ synthesis of magnetite coated silica-core water-dispersible hybrid nanomaterials. Langmuir, 29, 10573-10578, 2013. Link
• Yan Ma*, Sheng Tong*, Gang Bao, Chuang Gao, and Zhifei Dai. Indocyanine green loaded SPIO nanoparticles with phospholipid-PEG coating for dual-modal imaging guided photothermal therapy of cancer. Biomaterials, 34, 7706-7714, 2013. Link
• Gang Bao, Samir Mitragotri and Sheng Tong. Multi-functional nanoparticles for drug delivery and molecular imaging. Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering. 15, 253-282, 2013. Link
• Yan Ma, Xiaolong Liang, Sheng Tong, Gang Bao, Qiushi Ren, and Zhifei Dai. Gold nanoshelled nanomicelles for potential MRI imaging, light-triggered drug release and photothermal therapy. Advanced Functional Materials. 23, 815-822, 2013. Link
• Sijian Hou, Sheng Tong, Jun Zhou, and Gang Bao. Block copolymer based gadolinium nanoparticles as MRI contrast agents with high T1 relaxivity. Nanomedicine. 7, 211-218, 2012. Link
• Sheng Tong, Thomas J. Cradick, Yan Ma, Zhifei Dai, and Gang Bao. Engineering imaging probes and molecular machines for nanomedicine. Science China Life Sciences, 55, 843-861, 2012. Link
• Sheng Tong*, Sijian Hou*, Binbin Ren, Zhilan Zheng, and Gang Bao. Self-assembly of phospholipid-PEG coating on nanoparticles through dual solvent exchange. Nano Letters. 11, 3720-3726, 2011. Link
• Sheng Tong, Hanmanth J. Neboori, and Geert W. Schmid-Schoenbein. Constitutive expression and enzymatic cleavage of ICAM-1 in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Journal of Vascular Research. 48, 386-396, 2011. Link
• Sheng Tong*, Sijian Hou*, Zhilan Zheng, Jun Zhou, and Gang Bao. Coating Optimization of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for high T2 relaxivity. Nano Letters. 10, 4607-4613, 2010. Link
• Sheng Tong and Fan Yuan. Dose response of angiogenesis to basic fibroblast growth factor in rat corneal pocket assay: I. Experimental characterization. Microvascular Research. 75, 10-15, 2008. Link
• Sheng Tong and Fan Yuan. Dose response of angiogenesis to basic fibroblast growth factor in rat corneal pocket assay: II. Numerical simulations. Microvascular Research. 75, 16-24, 2008. Link
• Sheng Tong, Qing Chen, Si-Qing Shan, Mark W. Dewhirst, and Fan Yuan. Quantitative comparison of the inhibitory effects of GW5638 and tamoxifen on angiogenesis in the cornea pocket assay. Angiogenesis. 9, 53-58, 2006. Link
• Qing Chen, Sheng Tong, Mark W. Dewhirst, and Fan Yuan. Targeting tumor microvessels using doxorubicin encapsulated in a novel thermosensitive liposome. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 3, 1311-1317, 2004. Link
• Sheng Tong and Fan Yuan. An equivalent length model of microdialysis sampling. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 28, 269-278, 2002. Link
• Sheng Tong and Fan Yuan. Numerical simulations of angiogenesis in the cornea. Microvascular Research. 61, 14-27, 2001. Link
• Fan Yuan, Ava Krol, and Sheng Tong. Available space and extracellular transport of macromolecules: Effects of pore size and connectedness. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 29, 1150-1158, 2001. Link
• Qingsong Wu, Sheng Tong, Jianjun Zhou, Xingdong Liu, and Yanhou Xu. A model of crown fire spreading and numerical analysis. Fire Safety Science. 5, 69-73, 1996. Link
• Jian-jun Zhou, Sheng Tong, Xing-dong Liu, Qing-song Wu, and Yan-hou Xu. One-dimensional simplified model for crown fire spreading and its applications. Journal of China University of Science and Technology. 26 (Supplement), 218-222, 1996.