Fluorescence Based Sensing Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

The employment of fluorescence based technologies to biosensing applications has grown at a rapid rate over recent years and is now considered to be a very powerful tool in the elucidation of biological processes. The major benefit of employing extrinsic fluorophores is that they can be designed to sense specific biomolecules, study biological processes within membranes and cells, target specific locations within a cell, and research biomolecule interactions while preserving spatial and temporal cellular processes.

Fluorescence technologies now used in biosensing range from fluorescence spectra and lifetime studies through fluorescence quenching, Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), metal enhanced fluorescence (MEF), to fluorescence imaging, both in the intensity and lifetime domains.

This Special Issue focuses on all aspects of fluorescence spectroscopy relating to biological applications. Areas of application include, but are not limited to, immunoassays, cell sorting, cell structure, membrane biophysics, protein science, food and plant science, biosensors, bioreceptor arrays, and medical diagnostics.

Dr. A. Sheila Holmes-Smith
Guest Editor

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