Harnessing Gut Microbiota for Biomimetic Innovations in Health and Biotechnology

Biomimetics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 10(2), P. 73 - 73

Published: Jan. 24, 2025

The gut microbiota is a complex and dynamic ecosystem that plays fundamental role in human health by regulating immunity, metabolism, the gut–brain axis. Beyond its critical physiological functions, it has emerged as rich source of inspiration for biomimetic innovations healthcare biotechnology. This review explores transformative potential microbiota-based biomimetics, focusing on key biological mechanisms such resilience, self-regulation, quorum sensing. These have inspired development innovative applications, including personalized probiotics, synbiotics, artificial microbiomes, bioinspired biosensors, bioremediation systems. Such technologies aim to emulate optimize intricate functions microbial ecosystems, addressing challenges environmental sustainability. integration advanced technologies, intelligence, bioengineering, multi-omics approaches, further accelerated biomimetics. tools enable precision therapies tailored individual profiles, enhance efficacy diagnostic systems, facilitate design environmentally sustainable solutions, waste-to-energy systems platforms. Emerging areas innovation, gut-on-chip models synthetic biology, offer unprecedented opportunities studying applying principles controlled environments. Despite these advancements, remain. replication complexity environments, ethical concerns regarding genetically engineered microorganisms, equitable access are hurdles must be addressed. underscores importance interdisciplinary collaboration public awareness overcoming barriers ensuring responsible solutions. By leveraging biomimetics represents promising frontier approach revolutionize therapeutic strategies, redefine tools, address global challenges, paving way more personalized, efficient, future medicine

Language: Английский

Modulation and Mechanisms of Cellulose‐Based Hydrogels for Flexible Sensors

SusMat, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Nov. 27, 2024

ABSTRACT Flexible sensors exhibit the properties of excellent shape adaptability and deformation ability, which have been applied for environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics, food safety, smart systems, human–computer interaction. Cellulose‐based hydrogels are ideal materials fabrication flexible due to their unique three‐dimensional structure, renewability, ease processing, biodegradability, modifiability, good mechanical properties. This paper comprehensively reviews recent advances cellulose‐based in construction sensor applications. The characteristics, mechanisms, advantages prepared by physical cross‐linking, chemical cross‐linking respectively analyzed summarized detail. focus then turns research development hydrogel sensors, including sensing (pressure/strain, humidity/temperature, optical sensing), (chromium, copper, mercury ion sensing, toxic gas nitrite biosensing (glucose, antibody, cellular sensing). Additionally, limitations along with key challenges future directions, discussed. It is anticipated that this review will furnish invaluable insight advancement novel green, facilitate integration as a fundamental component multifunctional technologies, thereby expediting design innovative near future.

Language: Английский