IEEE Pulse. 2020 May-Jun;11(3):7-11. doi: 10.1109/MPULS.2020.2993684.
Your breath gives away a lot of information. Besides betraying that you've had garlic or onions for lunch, it also contains volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that provide quite telling biomarkers of disease. Building on the potential capability of VOCs to detect illness, the U.K. company Owlstone Medical is now developing a testing platform called Breath Biopsy [1] as a noninvasive diagnostic method and is collaborating with clinicians, researchers, and other biomedical companies around the world on its potential application for early detection of various cancers, respiratory illnesses, and immune diseases.
你的呼吸泄露了很多信息。除了暴露出你午餐吃了大蒜或洋葱，它还包含挥发性有机化合物（VOCs），这些化合物为疾病提供了非常有意义的生物标志物。基于 VOC 检测疾病的潜在能力，英国公司 Owlstone Medical 现在正在开发一种名为 Breath Biopsy 的测试平台[1]，作为一种非侵入性诊断方法，并与世界各地的临床医生、研究人员和其他生物医学公司合作，研究其在各种癌症、呼吸道疾病和免疫性疾病的早期检测中的潜在应用。
