New 'artificial nose' device can speed diagnosis of sepsis

Sunday, September 8, 2013 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

Disease-causing bacteria stink—literally—and the odor released by some of the nastiest microbes has become the basis for a faster and simpler new way to diagnose blood infections and finger the specific microbe, scientists reported here today at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society.

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