Written by internationally renowned authors in their fields, Fluorescence Sensors and Biosensors provides an up-to-date account of fluorescence-based sensors focused on practical applications in biotechnology, analytical chemistry, and biomedicine. This book reflects the most recent advances in the field, focusing on the emerging technologies with the broadest impacts. The authors discuss aptamers for sensing, techniques based on periplasmic binding proteins, the molecular beacon approach for DNA recognition, new developments in fluorophores and fluorescent labeling, lab-on-a-chip devices, and applications to practical problems.