Editorial on "Wearable biosensors for personalized health monitoring"

Abstract

Digital medicine facilitated by wearable electronics and big data analytics has received tremendous attention owing to its great potential in predictive analytics and preventive intervention toward precision medicine. Despite the urgent quest, the limited availability of wearable analytical biosensors has hindered further progress towards tracking the user's health state at molecular levels. Over the past years, through materials, devices, and system innovations, significant progress has been made in the field of wearable chemical sensors for analyzing biomarkers in body fluids such as saliva and sweat. The wearable biosensors have opened up a wealth of options for utilizing information obtained from sweat and saliva into the monitoring of physiological and pathophysiological conditions and could enable new fundamental and personalized healthcare applications.