Our health applications leverage the analytical capabilities of our instruments in diagnostics and screening applications:
- BreathSpec® for breath analysis
- FlavourSpec® for biofluids analysis (blood, urine, etc.)
Volatile Organic Compounds produced by pathogens in the organism, or by the organism’s response to those pathogens, provide us with a signature that can be identified to detect disease, allowing for early diagnosis or disease evolution follow up.
Areas of application:
- COVID-19 infection
- Bacterial vs Viral infection
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Lung Cancer, etc.
- Sepsis
- Early Alzheimer Disease detection
Breath Analysis unique advantages:
- Completely non-invasive, no swabs or other invasive sample collection
- No sample preparation or reagents
- Gives an immediate result, from sample collection to result in a few minutes
- No need for expert users and can be deployed in the community (for example in transportation hubs, military personnel health monitoring, primary care, nursing homes and residential care)
- Portable
- Extremely cost effective, as no expensive consumables or reagents
Volatile Organic Compound biofluid analysis unique advantages:
- Faster result than traditional methods, cutting measurement to result time from days to minutes or hours
- No need for expert analytical personnel
- Can be deployed at the point of need rather than at central analytical facilities
- Extremely cost effective, as no expensive consumables or reagents
