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In recent years, nanotechnology has attracted much attention in the field of biomedicine and sensing technology. As one of the simplest and most effective methods to prepare nanofiber materials, electrospinning technology has a lot of application research in biomedical fields such as sensor detection, drug delivery, and tissue engineering because of its high porosity, large surface area to volume ratio, and uniform size. In this review, we summarized the latest application progress of electrospinning materials in biomedicine, sensing, and textile industry and discussed the challenges and future development direction of electrospinning technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become the primary cause of global deaths and inflicts an enormous healthcare burden on both developed and developing countries. Frequent monitoring of CVD-associated risk factors such as the level of lipids (e.g., triglyceride (TG) and total cholesterol (TC)) and lipoproteins (e.g., low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL)) can effectively help prevent disease progression and improve clinical outcomes. However, measurement of these risk factors is generally integrated into an automated analyzer, which is prohibitively expensive and highly instrument-dependent for routine testing in primary care settings. As such, a variety of rapid, simple and portable nanomaterial-based biosensors have been developed for measuring the level of lipids (TG and TC) and lipoproteins (LDL and HDL) towards the management of CVD at the point-of-care (POC). In this review, we first summarize traditional methods for measurement of lipids and lipoproteins, and then present the latest advances in developing nanomaterial-based biosensors that can potentially monitor the risk factors of CVD at the POC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]