Technology has come a long way and continues to grow rapidly. But when technology can provide early detection of a potentially fatal disease, you’ve just got to pay attention.
Professor Hossam Haick and several colleagues at the Israel Institute of Technology have developed the NA-NOSE (short for Nanoscale Artificial NOSE) — a revolutionary new artificial device which is capable of detecting molecule patterns found in the breaths of people with head, neck and lung cancer.
After conducting a test on 87 volunteers, Haick and his team proved that the device could successfully distinguish between patients who had the disease and those who did not, by simply sniffing the breath of the patients. In fact, NA-NOSE was so effective, it was even able to identify the particular type of cancer the volunteer patients had.
