Disease breath tests, and Perseverance papers

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In the news this week, we hear about the novel approach to diagnosing diseases by looking at the chemical compounds in patients' breath, a new way of attacking viruses without damaging our cells, the potential for life on Mars, successful trials prescribing heat for health conditions, and what low frequncy noises we can't even hear can do for our propensity to dance... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:06.0	Welcome.
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0:21.0	the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in
0:23.2	science technology and medicine with me James Titco. Coming up this week a new
0:27.9	rapid way to tell heart failure from a chest infection just with a sample of
0:32.2	breath.
0:33.3	The molecular scissors dismantling the virus which causes COVID,
0:37.0	and we hear if there are any signs of life on Mars.
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0:47.0	A new way to diagnose certain diseases by analyzing a patient's exhaled breath
0:58.8	has been demonstrated by UK researchers. As he explains to Chris Smith, Plymouth Universities Michael Wild and his colleagues
1:06.1	have identified unique combinations of chemicals that are produced in different amounts by different
1:10.8	diseases and are released from the lungs alongside the air we breathe out.
1:15.0	So if you analyze the composition of that air and measure those chemicals, you can identify the
1:19.2	underlying medical problem even if the patient has more than one thing wrong with them at the time.
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