Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biosensors based on self-assembled monolayers / Daniela D. Schlereth -- Third generation biosensors -- integrating recognition and transduction in electrochemical sensors / Ulla Wollenberger -- Enzyme biosensors containing polymeric electron transfer systems / Hiroko I. Karan -- DNA-based biosensors / A.M. Oliveira Brett -- Optical biosensors / Laura M. Lechuga -- Bioanalytical microsystems: technology and applications / Antje J. Baeumner -- New materials for biosensors, biochips and molecular bioelectronics / Daniel Andreescu, Silvana Andreescu and Omowunmi A. Sadik -- Electrochemical antibody-based sensors / Judith Rishpon and Virginia Buchner -- Immunoassay: potentials and limitations / Catalin Nistor and Jenny Emnéus -- Non-affinity sensing technology: the exploitation of biocatalytic events for environmental analysis / Elena Dominguez and Arántzazu Narváez -- Biosensors for bioprocess monitoring / Ursula Bilitewski -- Coupling of microdialysis sampling with biosensing detection modes / Danila Moscone.