chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Prospects for the De Novo Design of Nucleic Acid Biosensors -- chapter 3 Biosensors Based on Periplasmic Binding Proteins -- chapter 4 Molecular Beacon DNA Probes Based on Fluorescence Biosensing -- chapter 5 Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer-Based Sensors for Bioanalysis -- chapter 6 Carbonic Anhydrase-Based Biosensing of Metal Ions: Issues and Future Prospects -- chapter 7 Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence Sensing -- chapter 8 Subpicomolar Assays of Antibodies and DNA Using Phosphorescence Labels -- chapter 9 Development of Fluorescent Dipyrrolylquinoxaline-Based Anion Sensors -- chapter 10 Lab-on-a-Chip and Fluorescence Sensing on the Microscale -- chapter 11 The Array Biosensors -- chapter 12 Planar Waveguide Biosensors for Point-of-Care Clinical and Molecular Diagnostics -- chapter 13 Fluorescence-Based Sensors for Bioprocess Monitoring -- chapter 14 Practical Aspects of Fluorescence Analysis of Free Zinc Ion in Biological Systems: pZn for the Biologist.