Advance toward a breath test to diagnose multiple sclerosis

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 14:01 in Health & Medicine

Scientists are reporting the development and successful tests in humans of a sensor array that can diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS) from exhaled breath, an advance that they describe as a landmark in the long search for a fast, inexpensive and non-invasive test for MS -- the most common neurological disease in young adults. Their report appears in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience.

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