Nucleic acid pool preparation and characterization / Shawn K. Piasecki, Bradley Hall, and Andrew D. Ellington -- In vitro selection of ssDNA aptamers using biotinylated target proteins / Günter Mayer and Thomas Höver -- Isolating aptamers using capillary electrophoresis-SELEX (CE-SELEX) / Renee K. Mosing and Michael T. Bowser -- In vitro selection of allosteric ribozymes / Nicolas Piganeau -- Cell-specific aptamers for targeted therapies / Laura Cerchia ... [et al.] -- Aptamers targeting RNA molecules / Marguerite Watrin ... [et al.] -- Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS)-based characterisation of aptamer ligand interaction / Arne Werner and Ulrich Hahn -- Structural probing techniques on natural aptamers / Catherine A. Wakeman and Wade C. Winkler -- Determining structures of RNA aptamers and riboswitches by X-ray crystallography / Andrea L. Edwards, Andrew D. Garst, and Robert T. Batey -- Locked nucleic acid aptamers / Jan Barciszewski ... [et al.] -- Screening of novel inhibitors of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase with a reporter ribozyme assay / Satoko Yamazaki and Michael Famulok -- Aptamers as artificial gene regulation elements / Beatrix Suess and Julia E. Weigand -- Aptamers and biosensors / Thomas M. Gronewold -- Nanoparticles/dip stick / Yi Lu, Juewen. Liu, and Debapriya Mazumdar -- In vivo imaging of oligonucleotidic aptamers / Bertrand Tavitian ... [et al.] -- Selection of peptides interfering with protein-protein interaction / Annette Gaida ... [et al.] -- In vitro selection of protein and peptide libraries using mRNA display / Terry T. Takahashi and Richard W. Roberts -- Ligand-regulated peptide aptamers / Russell A. Miller -- Isolation of peptide aptamers to target protein function / Luisa Lopez-Ochoa ... [et al.] -- Microbodies / Hans-Ulrich. Schmoldt ... [et al.] -- Peptide aptamers for small molecule drug discovery / Carine Bardou ... [et al.] -- Synthesis and application of peptides as drug carriers / Robert Rennert, Ines Neundorf, and Annette G. Beck-Sickinger