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Engineers Develop Prototype of Cheap, Disposable Lung Infection Detector

Marc Maligalig   |

Oct 15, 2014 03:09 PM EDT

With a $1.3 million grant from the National Science foundation, engineers from the University of California, Irvine, are developing a cheap and disposable breath analysis device that can immediately detect a lung infection, similar to the breathalyzer used by police to monitor blood alcohol levels.