Thorek, D.L.J., Tsourkas, A. (2008) Size, charge, and concentration dependent uptake of iron oxide particles by non-phagocytic cells: a comparative study of USPIO, SSPIO, and MPIO.  Biomaterials, Accepted.

Chen, A.K., Behlke, M.A., Tsourkas, A. (2008) Efficient cytosolic delivery of molecular beacon-conjugates and flow cytometric analysis of target RNA. Nucleic Acids Research, Accepted.

Cheng, Z., Tsourkas, A. (2008) Paramagnetic porous polymersomes. Langmuir, Accepted.

Zhang, C.Y., Lu, J., Tsourkas, A. (2008) Iron chelator-based amplification strategy for improved targeting of transferrin receptor with SPIO.  Cancer Biology and Therapy, 7(6), Accepted.

Chen, A.K., Behlke, M.A., Tsourkas, A. (2007) Avoiding false-positive signals with nuclease-vulnerable molecular beacons in single living cells.  Nucleic Acids Research.  35(16):e105.

Czupryna, J., Tsourkas, A. (2006) Suicide gene delivery by calcium phosphate nanoparticles: a novel method of targeted therapy for gastric cancer.  Cancer Biology and Therapy, 5(12), 1691-1692.

Thorek, D.L.J., Chen, A.K., Czupryna, J., Tsourkas, A. (2006) Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle probes for molecular imaging.  Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 34(1), 23-38.

Tsourkas*, A., Shinde-Patil*, V., Wolley, A., Allport, J., Weissleder, R. (2005) In vivo imaging of activated endothelium using anti-VCAM-1 magnetooptical probes. Bioconjugate Chemistry, 16(3), 576-581 (*contributed equally).

Tsourkas, A., Newton, G., Perez, J., Basilion, J., Weissleder, R. (2005) Detection of peroxidase/H2O2-mediated oxidation with enhanced yellow fluorescent protein.  Analytical Chemistry, 77(9), 2862-2867.

Kelly*, K., Allport*, J., Tsourkas, A., Shinde-Patil, V.,Josephson, L., Weissleder, R. (2005) Detection of vascular adhesion molecule-1 expression using a novel multimodal nanoparticle.  Circulation Research, 96, 327-336(*contributed equally).

Tsourkas, A., Weissleder, R. (2004) Illuminating the dynamics of intracellular activity with ‘active’ molecular reporters.  Mechanics and Chemistry of Biosystems, 1(2), 133-145.

Tsourkas, A., Hofstetter, O., Hofstetter, H., Weissleder, R., Josephson, L. (2004) Magnetic relaxation switch immunosensors detect enantiomeric impurities.  Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 43(18), 2395-2399.

Perez, J., Simeone, F., Tsourkas, A., Josephson, L., Weissleder, R. (2004) Peroxidase substrate nanosensors for MR imaging.  Nano Letters, 4(1), 119-122.

Bao, G., Tsourkas, A., Santangelo, P. (2004) Engineering nanostructured probes for sensitive intracellular gene detection.  Mechanics and Chemistry of Biosystems, 1(1), 23-36.

Santangelo, P., Nix, B., Tsourkas, A., Bao, G. (2004) Dual FRET molecular beacons for mRNA detection in living cells.  Nucleic Acids Research, 32(6), e57.

Tsourkas, A., Behlke, M., Xu, Y., Bao, G. (2003) Spectroscopic features of dual fluorescence/luminescence resonance energy-transfer molecular beacons.  Analytical Chemistry, 75(15), 3697-3703.

Tsourkas, A., Behlke, M., Rose, S., Bao, G. (2003) Hybridization kinetics and thermodynamics of molecular beacons.  Nucleic Acids Research, 31(4), 1319-1330.

Tsourkas, A., Bao, G. (2002) Shedding light on health and disease using molecular beacons.  Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics, 1(4), 1-13.

Tsourkas, A., Behlke, M., Bao, G. (2002) Structure-function relationships of shared-stem and conventional molecular beacons.  Nucleic Acids Research, 30(19), 4208-4215.

Tsourkas, A., Behlke, M., Bao, G. (2002) Hybridization of 2’-O-methyl and 2’-deoxy molecular beacons to RNA and DNA targets.  Nucleic Acids Research, 30(23), 5168-5174.