Bioluminescence and Biosensors Applied to Environmental, Food and Biomedical Fields

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue covering “Bioluminescence and Biosensors Applied to Environmental, Food and Biomedical Fields”. Bioluminescence, i.e., the emission of light generated by a luciferase-catalyzed oxidation of luciferin in living organisms, has been extensively explored and applied to diverse bioanalytical applications, spanning from molecular imaging to biosensing. Several bioluminescent systems from different organisms, including fireflies, bacteria and fungi, have been studied and successfully employed for in vitro and in vivo biosensing applications. Bioluminescent systems provide a suitable solution for all those analytical applications where high sensitivity, a wide dynamic range, multiplexing, good spatial resolution and cost effectiveness are required: for example, for the detection of very low concentrations of target analytes in complex environmental samples. The use of portable light detectors coupled with smart supports and nano- and bio-inspired materials to confine biorecognition elements, i.e., enzymes, antibodies and living cells, created new ways to implement bioluminescent systems into field-deployable biosensors and portable analytical devices characterized by high sensitivity, low cost and sustainability.

We invite contributions to this Special Issue of Chemosensors from a broad community of researchers. We invite you all to share with us your recent research in the field of BL biosensors and their applications in the detection of various species, such as drugs, food allergens, pesticides, biologically important compounds, endocrine disruptors, etc.

Dr. Maria Maddalena Calabretta
Guest Editor

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• bioluminescence
• biosensor
• environmental
• forensic
• food
• diagnostic
• imaging
• portable biosensors
• in vivo biosensing