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Published online 6 March 2007 |
Nature
| doi:10.1038/news070305-3
Corrected online: 8 March 2007
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Breath test for diabetes
Non-invasive test can pick up the whiff of disease.
Physicists have developed a simple breath test that may be capable of detecting Type I diabetes.
The results, presented on 5 March at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Denver, Colorado, could lead to non-invasive ways to check for the disease, and possibly even a cheap new tool for monitoring daily glucose levels without drawing blood.
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