The crucial recognition events of chemistry, biology, and materials science occur in a much
smaller world than the one we are accustomed to. Information about these events can be …

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a nonradiative process whereby an
excited state donor D (usually a fluorophore) transfers energy to a proximal ground state …

Posters and lectures presented at the Seventh International Conference on Bioinorganic
Chemistry (ICBIC) in Lubeck, Germany, last year was divided into 16 sections, including …

Fluorescence is the most popular technique in chemical and biological sensing because of
its ultimate sensitivity, high temporal and spatial resolution and versatility that enables …

Zinc is an essential biological element for living organisms and fluorescent imaging has
been proven to be the most suitable technique for its in vivo monitoring. From the late 1980s …

The need for selective and sensitive sensors able to monitor in real-time and real-space the
concentration of analytes of biological, clinical, and environmental interest is nowadays …

The recent discovery of catalytically active DNAs (deoxyribozymes) 1 has led to a wide-
spread interest in their use as simple, stable, and cost-effective alternatives to proteins and …

Colloidal gold nanocrystals have been used to develop a new class of nanobiosensors that
is able to recognize and detect specific DNA sequences and single-base mutations in a …

Two new fluorescent sensors for Zn2+ that utilize fluorescein as a reporting group, Zinpyr-1
and Zinpyr-2, have been synthesized and characterized. Zinpyr-1 is prepared in one step via …

Zinc is an essential cofactor, critical for numerous cellular functions. 1 The combination of its
unique chemical properties2 and its central role in processes including gene expression, 3 …