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NIST and Gates Foundation to Develop Breathalyzers for Malaria and Tuberculosis
NIST will create the standards and tools needed to ensure that the breathalyzers work.
In recent years, scientists have identified certain volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in human breath that indicate the presence of an illness or health condition. The measurement standards NIST develops for malaria and TB breathalyzers have the potential to lay the foundation for further advances in clinical breath analysis. NIST has extensive experience in measuring trace compounds in gases and creating reference materials to calibrate alcohol breathalyzers.
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