1. Photonic crystal waveguide sensing / J.S. Skibina, A.V. Malinin, A.A. Zanishevskaya, and V.V. Tuchin -- 2. Electrochemical biosensors / Madalina M. Barsan, M. Emilia Ghica, and Christopher M.A. Brett -- 3. Piezoelectric sensors / Petr Skladal and Tibor Hianik -- 4. Surface-enhanced raman scattering-based biosensors / Ilya N. Kurochkin, Andrey K. Sarychev, Ilya A. Ruzhikov, Igor A. Budashov, Sergey S. Maklakov, Sergey O. Boyarintsev, and Andrey N. Lagarkov -- 5. Enzymatic biosensors / Anastasios Economou -- 6. Antibody-based biosensors / Boris B. Dzantiev and Anatoly V. Zherdev -- 7. Ion channel switch- and lipid film-based biosensors / Tibor Hianik, Dimitrios P. Nikolelis, and Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli -- 8. Oligonucleotide and nucleic acid-based biosensors / Ilaria Palchetti -- 9. De Novo DNA synthesis and its biosensor detection / Anatoly N. Reshetilov, Nadezhda V. Zyrina, and Lyudmila A. Zheleznaya -- 10. Aptasensors : the new trends / Audrey Sassolas and Jean-Louis Marty -- 11. Tissue, microorganisms, organelles, and cell-based biosensors / Theodoros Varzakas, Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli, and Dimitrios P. Nikolelis -- 12. Nanotechnology and nanofabrication applications in chemical sensing / Magnus Willander and Zafar H. Ibupoto -- 13. Bioelectronic tongues / Manel del Valle, Xavier Ceto, and Manuel Gutierrez-Capitan -- 14. Molecularly imprinted polymer-based biosensors / Mihrican Muti and Arzum Erdem -- 15. Lab-on-a-chip and microfluidic technology / Nikolaos Tzamtzis, Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli, Theodoros Varzakas, Dimitrios P. Nikolelis, Vassilios N. Psychoyios, Nikolas Psaroudakis, and Stelios Liodakis -- 16. Biosensors in quality assurance of dairy products / Mara Isabel Pividori and Salvador Alegret -- 17. Determination of water-soluble vitamins and drug residues / Andreea Olaru and Camelia Bala -- 18. Optical biosensors in food safety and control / Theodoros Varzakas, Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli, Nikolaos Tzamtzis, and Dimitrios P. Nikolelis -- 19. Biosensors in express control of quality assurance of products / Nickolaj F. Starodub, Julia O. Ogorodnijchuk, Nelja F. Slishek, and Mykola Mel'nichenko -- 20. Efficiencies of biosensors in environmental monitoring / Nickolaj F. Starodub -- 21. Application of biosensors on air pollution monitoring / Evangelos Bakeas -- 22. Oligonucleotide and DNA microarrays as versatile tools for rapid diagnostics / Susana Campuzano, Maria Pedrero, and Jose M. Pingarrn -- 23. Biosensors for pesticides and foodborne pathogens / Gennady A. Evtugyn -- 24. Micro- and nanopatterning for bacteria- and virus-based biosensing applications / Gulsah Congur and Arzum Erdem -- 25. Electrochemical DNA biosensors in food safety : determination of phenolic compounds and antioxidant capacity in foods and beverages / Gennady A. Evtugyn and Anna V. Porfireva -- 26. Biosensors in quality of meat products / Theodoros Varzakas, Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli, Nikolaos Tzamtzis, and Dimitrios P. Nikolelis -- 27. Microbial cells and enzymes for assaying the fermentation processes of alcohol production : starch, glucose, ethanol, BOD / Anatoly N. Reshetilov, V.A. Arlyapov, M.G. Zaitsev, and V.A. Alferov -- 28. Biosensors for the control of biochemical parameters in the diagnostics of diseases / Nickolaj F. Starodub.