Exhaled breath contains chemical clues to what's going on inside the body, including diseases like lung cancer. And devising ways to sense these compounds could help doctors provide early diagnoses -- ...

In a recent study posted to Preprints with The Lancet*, researchers found evidence that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) particles are released directly into the air ...

Electronic nose breath analysis achieved 80-92% accuracy for detecting lung cancer in patients with suspicious findings. Detection accuracy remained consistent across tumor characteristics, disease ...

Breath is an important matrix for analyzing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that are generated within the body. These compounds travel through the blood in the body, reach the alveolar interface, ...

A new method for visualizing breath that is exhaled while someone is speaking or singing could provide important new insights into how diseases such as COVID-19 spread and the effectiveness of face ...

Learn how chemicals released by gut microbes end up in exhaled breath, and how researchers used those signals to identify microbial communities linked to disease. Every breath carries a mix of ...

We know that we can get the coronavirus by breathing in respiratory droplets exhaled, coughed or sneezed by someone with the disease. So does it help to hold your breath when you pass mask-free ...