by Jim Dryden July 31, 2023 CHAKRABARTY LAB Benjamin Sumlin, PhD, a senior scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, blows into a device designed by researchers at the university. The device — a breath test that uses a biosensor — could become a tool for use in doctors’ offices to quickly diagnose people infected...
by University of Cambridge Credit: Owlstone Medical Cambridge-based company Owlstone Medical, co-founded by alumnus Billy Boyle, has experienced trial success for its liver disease breath test, following a study involving patients from Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Owlstone Medical is developing a non-invasive, easy-to-use breath test that can be taken in primary care settings for the diagnosis of advanced non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)—a...
NOVEMBER 2ND, 2021, CONN HASTINGS Researchers at Ohio State University managed to develop a breath test for COVID-19 that can spot the infection within seconds. The basis for the test is a unique ‘breath print’ of COVID-19 that the researchers have identified, and this includes a specific combination of oxygen, nitric oxide, and ammonia in...
UNIVERSITY OF BASEL Breath instead of blood: researchers from the University of Basel have developed a new test method to measure treatment success in epilepsy patients. They hope that this will enable doctors to react more precisely when treating the disease. Epilepsy affects some 50 million people worldwide and pharmaceutical treatment of the disease is a tightrope...
FLINDERS UNIVERSITY IMAGE: FLINDERS UNIVERSITY CANCER RESEARCHER DR. ROGER YAZBEK. The global quest to use a person’s breath analysis for rapid, inexpensive and accurate early-stage testing for cancer and other diseases has taken a leap forward. In a new paper in the British Journal of Cancer, Flinders University researchers have reported significant progress in developing a method to...
Researchers have launched a clinical trial to develop a breath test, analysing molecules that could indicate the presence of cancer at an early stage. This is the first test of its kind to investigate multiple cancer types. A cancer breath test has huge potential to provide a non-invasive look into what’s happening in the body and could help to find cancer early when treatment is more likely to be...
The USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center is recruiting people for a clinical trial that will research the effectiveness of a breath test for breast cancer diagnostics. The BreathLink device captures a two-minute sample of a patient’s breath and provides prompt results on whether there are indications of breast cancer. If proven effective, the test would...
A simple breath test could save lives by diagnosing deadly cancers early. British research shows the breathalyser is 85 per cent accurate at identifying stomach and oesophageal cancers, which between them affect 16,000 men and women a year. Both types of cancer are often diagnosed late, leading to poor survival rates. Scientists hope the new breath...
