Sensors Detect Disease Markers in Breath

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  • TBMG-27078
Published July 01, 2017 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
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A small, thin square of an organic plastic that can detect disease markers in breath could soon be the basis of portable, disposable sensor devices. By riddling the thin plastic films with pores, researchers made the devices sensitive enough to detect at levels that are far too low to smell, yet are important to human health.