Biomarkers in breath can be related to certain diseases, which makes breath-based analysis a powerful diagnostic tool. Here we highlight milestones and remaining challenges for the broad clinical implementation of wearables for breath analysis.
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The authors would like to acknowledge Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) for funding this work (grant numbers 404478562 and 446617142) and also thank N. Brasier for insightful discussions.
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Ates, H.C., Dincer, C. Wearable breath analysis. Nat Rev Bioeng 1, 80–82 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-022-00011-7
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