Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Imaging and Probes : New Tools in Chemical, Physical and Life Sciences

Conference on Methods and Applications of Fluorescence: Spectroscopy, Imaging, and Probes (7th : 2001 : Amsterdam, Netherlands); Visser, Antonie J. W. G. (EDT); Gerritsen, Hans C. (EDT); Kraayenhof, Ruud (EDT); Visser, Antonie J. W. G.; Gerritsen, Hans C.

ISBN 10: 3540427686 / ISBN 13: 9783540427681

Published by Springer, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Imaging and Probes : New Tools in Chemical, Physical and Life Sciences
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540427686
• ISBN 13: 9783540427681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The application of fluorescence in drug discovery, high-throughout screenings in genomics and proteomics is and will be evidently successful. The increased use of fluorescence techniques is greatly enhanced by the improved instrumentation pioneered by inventive scientists and now made available commercially by several high-tech companies. Moreover, the design and development of many new molecular probes with higher selectivity for specific microenvironmental properties has stimulated many new researchers to employ fluorescence techniques for solving their problems. Probably the most significant breakthrough in fluorescence is its use in detection of single molecules and even of their real-time dynamics. Also, probing inside living cells has become a hot topic in the life sciences. This topic book reflects the updates of scientific progress presented by frontline researchers.

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Fluorescence techniques enjoy ever-increasing interest from a multitude of disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, pharmacology, toxicology and medicine. Besides widespread fundamental and applied research of fluorescence in university laboratories, one observes a substantially enhanced effort by smaller and larger companies towards the development of new fluorescence-based diagnostic tools. This increased use of fluorescence techniques is greatly enhanced by the improved instrumentation, in particular that of microscopic imaging, such as confocal scanning and multi-photon excitation microscopies. Moreover, the development of many new molecular probes with higher selectivity for specific micro-environmental properties has stimulated many new researchers to employ fluorescence techniques. This topic book, the second in the Springer Series on Fluorescence, reflects this exciting scientific progress and deals, among others, with new approaches and new probes in fluorescence spectroscopy, single molecule fluorescence, applications in biomembrane and enzyme studies and imaging of living cells.