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Letao Yang, Lin Y. Hung, Yuefei Zhu, Suwan Ding, K. Margolis, Kam W. Leong
2022
2022
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Yang, L., Hung, L. Y., Zhu, Y., Ding, S., Margolis, K., & Leong, K. W. (2022). Materials Engineering in Gut Microbiome and Human Health Short title: Biomaterials Innovations Applied to Gut Microbiome Authors.
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Yang, Letao, Lin Y. Hung, Yuefei Zhu, Suwan Ding, K. Margolis, and Kam W. Leong. “Materials Engineering in Gut Microbiome and Human Health Short Title: Biomaterials Innovations Applied to Gut Microbiome Authors” (2022).
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Yang, Letao, et al. Materials Engineering in Gut Microbiome and Human Health Short Title: Biomaterials Innovations Applied to Gut Microbiome Authors. 2022.
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@article{letao2022a,
title = {Materials Engineering in Gut Microbiome and Human Health Short title: Biomaterials Innovations Applied to Gut Microbiome Authors},
year = {2022},
author = {Yang, Letao and Hung, Lin Y. and Zhu, Yuefei and Ding, Suwan and Margolis, K. and Leong, Kam W.}
}
Abstract
Tremendous progress has been made in the past decade regarding our understanding of the gut microbiome’s role in human health. Currently, however, a comprehensive and focused review marrying the two distinct fields of gut microbiome and material research is lacking. To bridge the gap, the current paper discusses critical aspects of the rapidly emerging research topic of “materials engineering in the gut microbiome and human health.” By engaging scientists with diverse backgrounds in biomaterials, gut-microbiome axis, neuroscience, synthetic biology, tissue engineering, and biosensing into a dialogue, our goal is to accelerate the development of research tools for gut microbiome research, and the development of therapeutics that target the gut microbiome. For this purpose, state-of-art knowledge is presented here on biomaterial technologies that facilitate the study, analysis, and manipulation of the gut microbiome, including intestinal organoids, guton-chip models, hydrogels for spatial mapping of gut microbiome compositions, microbiome biosensors, and oral bacteria delivery systems. In addition, a discussion is provided regarding the microbiome-gut-brain axis, and the critical roles that biomaterials can play to investigate and regulate the axis. Lastly, perspectives are provided regarding future directions on how to develop and use novel biomaterials in gut microbiome research, as well as essential regulatory rules in clinical translation. In this way, we hope to inspire research into future biomaterial technologies to advance gut microbiome research and gut microbiome-based theragnostics.
