Testing for drug use and disease in humans could soon be much simpler, thanks to new Swedish research. Whereas drug tests currently rely on blood or urine samples, researchers from the Unive... Read more
Each disease produces a unique volatile chemical breathprint Before modern medical lab techniques became available, doctors diagnosed some diseases by smelling a patient’s breath. Scie... Read more
Different diseases are characterized by different chemical signatures identifiable in breath samples
You Are What You Exhale: Different Diseases Have Distinct Chemical Signatures An international team of 56 researchers in five countries has confirmed a hypothesis first proposed by the ancie... Read more
UT Dallas Team Breathes New Life into Possibilities By Using CMOS Integrated Circuits Technology Researchers at the Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE) at UT Dallas are working to deve... Read more
Alcohol consumption isn’t the only thing a breath analysis can reveal. Scientists have been studying its possible use for diagnosing a wide range of conditions in humans — and now in t... Read more
University of Adelaide physics researchers have developed a new type of laser that will enable exciting new advances in areas as diverse as breath analysis for disease diagnosis and remote s... Read more
Compounds present in exhaled breath can act as a “fingerprint” for individuals, scientists say. These “metabolites” represent the waste products of the body’s c... Read more
Ultimately the DDU may be able to diagnose a wide range of illness While Star Trek-style multifunctional medical “tricorders” are still in the realm of sci-fi, scientists at the... Read more
Image by mmechtley via Flickr Researchers have overcome a fundamental obstacle in developing breath-analysis technology to rapidly diagnose patients by detecting chemical compounds called... Read more