Thursday, April 4, 2013

What we exhale is unique to us

Our breath may be as unique as our fingerprint. Compounds in exhaled air produce a unique and stable molecular autograph or "breathprint" – one that could be used to monitor disease or track response to medication. Renato Zenobi at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and his colleagues discovered breathprints by analysing the breath of 11 healthy individuals. 
By Rebecca Summers / continue reading

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