Tracking down the human 'odourprint'
Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 03:49
in Biology & Nature
Each of the 6.7 billion people on Earth has a signature body odour - the chemical counterpart to fingerprints - and scientists are tracking down those odiferous arches, loops, and whorls in the 'human odourprint' for purposes ranging from disease diagnosis to crime prevention. That's the topic of an article in the current issue of Chemical and Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine...