While State University of New York at Buffalo
researchers are building the breathalyzer
device, a pocket-sized portable chemical sensor that will test a person's breath to detect cancer -- a team of
researchers at the University of Michigan have won a Breast Cancer Research Program Idea award to develop a portable device to test breath for the presence of
metabolites associated with breast cancer. Previous studies have proven human breath from the body changes when
disease is present. The University of Michigan researchers explain that their inexpensive, early detection device will test breath for metabolites in the breath associated with breast cancer. In general, this idea seems to be gaining a good deal of attention, with more than one research facility working on its practical development, and I except one day we will see these over-the-counter devices available to the public. This type of innovation certainly deserves an award.
