Smart textile-based wearable sweat sensors have recently received a lot of attention due to their potential for use in personal medical monitoring. They have a variety of desirable qualities, including low cost, easy implementation, stretchability, flexibility, and light weight. Wearable sweat sensors are a potential approach for personalized medical devices because of these features. Moreover, real-time textile-based sweat sensors can easily monitor health by analyzing the sweat produced by the human body. We reviewed the most recent advancements in wearable sweat sensors from the fabrication, materials, and disease detection and monitoring perspectives. To integrate real-time biosensors with electronics and introduce advancements to the field of wearable technology, key chemical constituents of sweat, sweat collection technologies, and concerns of textile substrates are elaborated. Perspectives for building wearable biosensing systems based on sweat are reviewed, as well as the methods and difficulties involved in enhancing wearable sweat-sensing performance.

This work presents a wearable system combining engineered nanofibers and machine learning for ankle injury classification, enabling classification of risky motions like inversion and eversion, which is useful for preventive healthcare.

Textiles have progressed from traditional dressings and sutures to advanced biomaterials supporting wound healing, tissue regeneration, drug delivery, and biosensing applications. Their hierarchical structure (fibers, yarns, and fabrics) enables unique combinations of tensile strength, porosity, flexibility, and biocompatibility, making them versatile platforms in biomedical engineering. This review provides a systematic mapping of textiles as biomaterials. Literature published between 2014 and 2025 was retrieved from Google Scholar and Scopus. Analysis shows that natural fibers such as silk, collagen, cellulose, and chitosan contribute biocompatibility and bioactivity, while synthetic polymers such as polyester, polycaprolactone, and polylactic acid provide tunable mechanics and degradation. Textile processing methods including weaving, knitting, braiding, and electrospinning have enabled applications ranging from antimicrobial wound dressings and electroactive scaffolds to drug-eluting nanofibers and biosensing fabrics for wearable health monitoring. Key challenges include biocompatibility, durability, regulatory approval, and sustainability, with few long-term clinical validations reported. Future opportunities lie in integrating bioresorbable fibers, eco-friendly fabrication, and smart functionalities such as piezoelectricity and bio signal detection. By consolidating current evidence, this review highlights textiles as promising biomaterial platforms to accelerate their safe, effective, and sustainable use in healthcare. Graphical abstract