Nosing out cancer.(Medical/Biotech)(Rome University researching diagnosis of cancer based on patient's breath)(Brief Article)

From: Sensors Magazine | Date: September 1, 2003 | Copyright information

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROME, researchers are joining an international "rediscovery" of an ancient diagnostic technique still practiced in Tibet, Nepal, China, and several other Asian cultures. The secret? To sniff a patient's breath. (Think of diabetics in trouble and the smell of acetone.) Lacking the years of formal training a Tibetan physician undergoes, Western medicine has to come at the challenge through technology. In the Roman e-nose, designed to detect lung ...

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