The unique properties of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) such as their large surface area and high porosity have attracted considerable attention in recent decades. The MOFs are a promising class of materials for developing highly efficient biosensors due to these same properties. This bibliometric analysis focused on the use of MOFs as enzyme-coupled materials in biosensor construction and aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of the research field by analyzing a collected database. The analysis included identifying the countries that have published the most, the most prominent applications, and trends for future directions in the field. The study used three databases with different numbers of documents, differentiated by research areas, with refinements made to the search as needed. The results suggest that MOF-derived biosensors are a growing field, with the Republic of China emerging as a significant contributor to research in this area. The study also used computational processing of trend analysis and geocoding to reveal these findings.

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This paper aims to present the advances related to the biotechnological application of lipases Y. lipolytica, presenting their properties and more efficient ways to use them in different industrial applications. Waste treatment and bioremediation highlight recent studies and advances and the interest in large-scale applications in the food sector and biofuel production. The USA and China, two major world powers in industy, are of utmost importance in the search for the improvement in the development and properties of a controlled system for the large-scale production of a significant number of applications of lipase from Y. lipolytica.

Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary science capable of developing great advances in the most diverse areas. The interest in the use of nanoparticles (NPs) in biological applications is notorious, due to their physicochemical properties. This study aims to present the biological applications of nanoparticles in modern science, in order to show the prospects for advancement in the area of nanotechnology aimed at biological applications. For this, an exploratory bibliographic review of a qualitative nature was carried out based on public productions between the years 2010 to 2020. The acquisitions of the works were carried out on the platforms Nature, Science, Scielo, Science Direct, Web of Science, Google Academic and Latindex. A general approach on the properties of nanoparticles was carried out, emphasizing their biological applications. It can be seen that the main areas of biological application of nanoparticles are the production of drugs and detection of diagnoses at the cellular level. In addition, it is clear that the gold nanoparticle is the most used in current studies. Thus, the present study aims to serve as a subsidy for researchers in the nanotechnology area, presenting in an exploratory and descriptive way the studies published in the last decade.