A647-labeled PVX nanoparticles, bioconjugated with a 12 amino acid peptide with affinity to the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), are effective in detection and imaging of carcinoma cell lines that upregulate EGFR, and prefer partitioning to cancer cells rather than to macrophages (Chariou et al., 2015). The gene discussed is EGFR; the disease is carcinoma.