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Recent advances in biomedical, biosensor and clinical measurement devices for use in humans and the potential application of these technologies for the study of physiology and disease in wild animals
- Source :
- Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- The Royal Society, 2021.
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Abstract
- The goal of achieving enhanced diagnosis and continuous monitoring of human health has led to a vibrant, dynamic and well-funded field of research in medical sensing and biosensor technologies. The field has many sub-disciplines which focus on different aspects of sensor science; engaging engineers, chemists, biochemists and clinicians, often in interdisciplinary teams. The trends which dominate include the efforts to develop effective point of care tests and implantable/wearable technologies for early diagnosis and continuous monitoring. This review will outline the current state of the art in a number of relevant fields, including device engineering, chemistry, nanoscience and biomolecular detection, and suggest how these advances might be employed to develop effective systems for measuring physiology, detecting infection and monitoring biomarker status in wild animals. Special consideration is also given to the emerging threat of antimicrobial resistance and in the light of the current SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, zoonotic infections. Both of these areas involve significant crossover between animal and human health and are therefore well placed to seed technological developments with applicability to both human and animal health and, more generally, the reviewed technologies have significant potential to find use in the measurement of physiology in wild animals.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Measuring physiology in free-living animals (Part II)’.
- Subjects :
- Cell engineering
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Physiology
Animals, Wild
Biosensing Techniques
Disease
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Wearable Electronic Devices
QH301
Human health
Zoonoses
Animals
Humans
Nanotechnology
Cell Engineering
Wearable technology
Monitoring, Physiologic
QL
Zoonotic Infection
Animal health
Zika Virus Infection
business.industry
COVID-19
Articles
Point-of-Care Testing
RC0321
Synthetic Biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
business
Biomarkers
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14712970 and 09628436
- Volume :
- 376
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e9a2b288e08d69cac2d793fa9ca64eb0