Recent advances in nanobiosensors for sustainable healthcare applications: A systematic literature review

Environ Res. 2023 Dec 1;238(Pt 2):117177. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117177. Epub 2023 Sep 24.

Abstract

The need for novel healthcare treatments and drugs has increased due to the expanding human population, detection of newer diseases, and looming pandemics. The development of nanotechnology offers a platform for cutting-edge in vivo non-invasive monitoring and point-of-care-testing (POCT) for rehabilitative disease detection and management. The advancement and uses of nanobiosensors are currently becoming more common in a variety of scientific fields, such as environmental monitoring, food safety, biomedical, clinical, and sustainable healthcare sciences, since the advent of nanotechnology. The identification and detection of biological patterns connected to any type of disease (communicable or not) have been made possible in recent years by several sensing techniques utilizing nanotechnology concerning biosensors and nanobiosensors. In this work, 2218 articles are drawn and screened from six digital databases out of which 17 were shortlisted for this review by using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) technique. As a result, this study uses a systematic methodology to review some recently developed extremely sensitive nanobiosensors, along with their biomedical, point-of-care diagnostics (POCD), or healthcare applications and their capabilities, particularly for the prediction of some fatal diseases based on a few of the most recent publications. The potential of nanobiosensors for medicinal, therapeutic, or other sustainable healthcare applications, notably for ailments diagnostics, is also recognized as a way forward in the manifestation of future trends.

Keywords: CNTs; Nanobiosensors; Nanotechnology; POCD; POCT; QDs; Sustainable healthcare.

Publication types

  • Systematic Review

MeSH terms

  • Biosensing Techniques*
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Food Safety
  • Humans
  • Nanotechnology* / methods
  • Pandemics