Minimally invasive technology for continuous glucosemonitoring

Introduction Despite the numerous breakthroughs made in medical and biomedical technologies,biosensing underneath the skin without any associated pain still sounds like a dream yet to be realized.Minimally invasive biosensors refer to functional or electronic sensors that can contact the interior environment of living organisms and their biological tissues,while the connected bulk devices remain on the surface of the biological objects[1].Minimally invasive biosensors are currently a key research area because they can not only meet the increasing technical demands to precisely detect biological activities inside biological objects,but also provide an ideal platform to externally incorporate complicated functionalities and electronic integration[2].The current development level of minimally invasive sensing still necessitates solving the constraints and bottlenecks in the three aspects of functionalities,sensitivity and biocompatibility[3].In this perspective,we select minimally invasive sensors as a representative research object with the aim to solve the limitations of current diabetes diagnosis and treatment approaches.