New Trends in Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy and Its Application Methods

Dear Colleagues,

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) has significantly contributed to the understanding of molecular dynamics in a lot of biological systems such as diffusion, interaction, oligomerization/aggregation of auto-fluorescent or fluorescent dye-labeled biomolecules. Many researchers believe that FCS does not include any limitations for the application because the limitation is just a restriction of the idea. The related methods and applications of FCS have been widely established after the establishment of a robust basic principle of FCS.

This special issue focuses on the vast range of FCS and its advanced methods not only in biological applications but also as basic improvements of FCS or correlation spectroscopy. Improvement of equipment and optical system, the establishment of statistical analysis methods, analysis methods using computational simulation, and so on, are required in typical advances of FCS. High-throughput screening or standardization and calibration strategies using FCS are also important for the biomedical and biophysical fields.

FCS has been widely involved in a variety of research fields such as molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, pharmacology and biomedicine, and others. The latest technological developments and biological applications using FCS and its related methods will be shared through this special issue. We invite researchers and investigators to contribute their original research or review articles to this special issue.

Dr. Akira Kitamura
Dr. Akira Sasaki
Guest Editors

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