Most of the bacteria residing in the human upper gastrointestinal tract is the friendly sort. But Helicobacter pylori, if it gets a foothold, can cause pain, bloating, ulcers, and even stomach cancer.

MIT engineers have developed a test to detect disease-related compounds in a patient’s breath. The new test could provide a ...

What if diagnosing pneumonia were as simple? A breath test uses nanoparticles and a chip-scale sensor to detect disease biomarkers.

Diagnosing diabetes could soon be as easy as breathing. Researchers at Penn State have developed a sensor that detects acetone in breath, offering a fast, inexpensive way to identify diabetes and ...

Researchers have developed a nanoscale sensor that detects lung cancer simply by analyzing the levels of a chemical called isoprene in your breath. The team believes its breakthrough could unlock a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A modified surgical face mask ask analyzes a person's breath to look for gases that are associated with kidney disease, ...

BOULDER, Colo. (KUSA/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A group of physicists said they developed a device that can detect diseases from nothing but a patient's breath. Qizhong Liang, a physicist at the University ...

An array of functionalized membrane-type surface stress sensors (MSS) distinguishes people with cancer through a signature response to breath samples, according to a phys.org story. Researchers from ...

Some illnesses such as lung and stomach cancer or liver diseases which, due to the difficulty of diagnosis, have symptoms that are often confused with routine disorders. Therefore, in most cases, the ...

Fuel cell sensors are electrochemical devices designed for precise measurement. In measurement applications, they have become the gold standard for breath alcohol concentration detection, valued for ...