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Nosing out cancer.(Medical/Biotech)(Rome University researching diagnosis of cancer based on patient's breath)(Brief Article)
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Sensors Magazine
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September 1, 2003
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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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