Mind your P's and Q's: the coming of age of semiconducting polymer dots and semiconductor quantum dots in biological applications

- Pdots and QDs are bright emitters with low photobleaching rates.
- Applications in single particle tracking and cellular imaging.
- QDs offer new opportunities for point-of-care diagnostics, multifunctional probes.
- QDs are ideally suited for multiplexing and multicolor imaging.
- Pdots have great potential for in vivo imaging, drug delivery and theranostics.