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.

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大呼气：使用呼吸分析检测疾病

你的呼吸会泄露很多信息。除了表明您午餐吃过大蒜或洋葱外，它还含有挥发性有机化合物 (VOC)，可提供非常有说服力的疾病生物标志物。基于 VOC 检测疾病的潜在能力，英国公司 Owlstone Medical 现在正在开发一种称为呼吸活检 [1] 的测试平台，作为一种无创诊断方法，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开发早期检测各种癌症、呼吸系统疾病和免疫疾病的潜在应用。