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Contact: Jun Ye
jun.ye@colorado.edu
303-735-3171
University of Colorado at Boulder

Breath Analysis for Disease Detection

Caption: University of Colorado at Boulder physics doctoral student Michael Thorpe holds a detection chamber next to a novel laser apparatus at JILA. Thorpe and JILA's Jun Ye led a new study showing how scientists can use laser light to detect faint breath molecules that may be biomarkers for disease.

Credit: JILA, NIST, University of Colorado at Boulder

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