Bioanalytical chemistry plays today a central role in various fields, from healthcare to food and environmental control. This book presents the main methodologies for analyzing biomacromolecules, with a focus on methods based on molecular recognition. The six chapters move from fundamentals to the most recent advances, achieved by a synergetic combination of bio and nanotechnologies. The need for rapid and reliable analytical tools able to perform a large number of quantitative analyses, not only in centralized laboratories and core facilities but also for point-of-care testing, has been dramatically stressed by the recent crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of the authors is to provide graduate students and young researchers with the elements of interdisciplinary knowledge necessary not only to use the wide arsenal of bioanalytical tools available today but also to contribute to the development of even more effective devices and methods.

Enter our glorious post-philosophical age - the long struggle to achieve truth, method, logos, reason, etc. yielding to local narratives and reasonable agreements on a neo-pragmatic basis...Relativism grants poor overall direction, however. We see its results as a Pixar movie with the occasional horror interlude (or the other way around). In front of the global community of diversities, the judicious relativist faces the future as a rather blind journey. An all-encompassing grasp is still what one intelligent being is entitled to look for and should care about. The postmodern demise of philosophy leaves a void that we had better fill with a new overall conception, one open to pluralism without giving up the kind of comprehensive understanding long sought by philosophers. A primary convergence of concepts below a seedbed of welcome difference is what prosophy attends to.