Taking your breath away: metabolomics breathes life in to personalized medicine.

Abstract:

:Breath-based metabolomics (breathomics) is an exciting developing area of biotechnology that centers on the capture, identification, and quantification of volatile organic compound (VOC) patterns in human breath and their utilization as tools in the diagnosis of a broad spectrum of medical problems. With the age of personalized medicines demanding rapid bespoke diagnosis and treatment, this area of molecular diagnostics is beginning to see an upsurge in biotechnological advancement. Here, we discuss recent improvements and directions in the development of breath VOC analysis and diagnosis platforms that offer the potential for disease biomarker discovery and disease prognosis.

journal_name

Trends Biotechnol

journal_title

Trends in biotechnology

authors

Rattray NJ,Hamrang Z,Trivedi DK,Goodacre R,Fowler SJ

doi

10.1016/j.tibtech.2014.08.003

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-10-01 00:00:00

pages

538-48

issue

10

eissn

0167-7799

issn

1879-3096

pii

S0167-7799(14)00163-2

journal_volume

32

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