An advertisement feature summarizing the scientific achievements of Professor Madoka Takai, CTO and Co-founder of Gel Coat Biomaterials, Inc., and Honda R&D has been published in Nature
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An advertisement feature in which the technical knowledge of our CTO and Co-founder, Professor Madoka Takai (Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo), was greatly featured has been published on Nature.com, the online version of the world's top comprehensive science journal Nature.
This article features the front line of next-generation biosensor development by a joint research team from Honda R&D (Honda), The University of Tokyo, and others.
■ Publication Overview
Media Name: Nature.com (Special Feature: Spotlight Sensors)
Title: The tiny biosensors that could make driving safer
Publication Date: February 5, 2026
Advertisement Feature URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-025-00346-w
■ Content of the Article and Professor Takai's Role Within the article, the innovativeness of "minimally invasive microneedle biosensors" that detect driver fatigue and stress—the primary factors of traffic accidents—in real-time is detailed.
Professor Takai is an expert in sensing technology using "zwitterionic polymer hydrogels," which is the core of this technology. This gel has extremely high biocompatibility and possesses the property of preventing protein attachment, enabling the achievement of improved sensitivity.
■ Future Outlook
These research results hold the potential to bring about a paradigm shift in the medical and healthcare fields, such as painless continuous glucose monitoring for diabetic patients, not limited to safe driving support.
At our company, Gel Coat Biomaterials, Inc., we also intend to push forward in business development that contributes to solving social issues, based on such cutting-edge biomaterial technology of Professor Takai.