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E-nose in your life

The e-nose is more than just a detector for explosives - its makers hope that one day it could be sniffing out the level of harmful pollutants in factory emissions or diagnosing disease by detecting telltale chemicals on a patient's breath.

Like a medical breathalyser? Yes - measuring chemical 'markers' on your breath could provide a pain-free way of monitoring diabetes, or guide more effective use of asthma drugs.



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Image: Owlstone Ltd
    Image: The Royal Academy of Engineering
 

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