An outlook on implantable biosensors for personalized medicine

Abstract

Biosensors are a fast-growing field, as they have been shown to be very helpful in our daily life, playing roles in industries such as agriculture, food safety, homeland security, bioprocessing, environmental monitoring, and industrial monitoring. Beyond these, the application of biosensing in medicine and biomedical engineering may have the highest potential for growth and for affecting human quality of life in the near future. This potential is driven by the need for new and improved devices and technologies with improved sensitivity, specificity, reliability, and biocompatibility, which can solve and manage medical and health problems such as heart diseases, cancer, or diabetes, among others [1].Â