Breathprint: Now Your Breathing Has A Fingerprint Too

Bodily fluids contain lots of information about the health of people, that is why medical doctors routinely have blood and urine analyzed. But bodily fluids can do more than mark infectious diseases or cancer and organ failure, researchers at ETH Zurich and at the University Hospital Zurich have shown they can take advantage of modern high-resolution analytical methods to provide real-time information on the chemical composition of exhaled breath. Yes, your breath has an identifiable individual chemical pattern. Call it a a 'breathprint'?  read more

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