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How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you
Your inhalation and exhalation pattern is not only unique to you, it can be a marker of your physical and mental state, study suggests.
Mounted on the back of the neck, the device, which has tubes fitted under the nose, tracks people’s breathing during their everyday routines, both while they are awake and while they are asleep. Researchers measured study participants’ breathing patterns over 24 hours, using a custom device that sits on the back of the neck.Credit: Soroka et al., Current Biology When 42 of the participants came back to the laboratory weeks, months and even two years later, to take part in another 24-hour measurement, the trained algorithm could identify them from their breath patterns.
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