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Optical 'Frequency Comb' Can Detect the Breath of Disease

Caption: Schematic of a breath analyzer that uses "frequency combs," an optical tool that led to a recent Nobel Prize in Physics for JILA fellow Jan Hall.

Credit: Univ. of Colorado/JILA

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