US EditionResearch Progress of Electronic Nose Technology in Exhaled Breath Disease Analysis
- On June 12, 2025, researchers at the Weizmann Institute published a study in Current Biology showing humans have unique breathing patterns identifiable with 96.8% accuracy.
- The study involved 100 participants who wore nasal airflow devices for 24 hours during daily activities to test the hypothesis that breathing reflects brain uniqueness.
- Analysis revealed that each person’s respiratory fingerprint correlated with body mass index, sleep-wake cycles, anxiety, depression, and behavioral traits.
- Neurobiologist Noam Sobel expressed a hopeful but careful outlook on moving from using breathing patterns for diagnosis toward developing treatments, suggesting that how we breathe could potentially affect conditions like anxiety and depression.
- The findings suggest respiratory patterns could become diagnostic and therapeutic tools, encouraging future research on treating diseases by modifying breathing.
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Research progress of electronic nose technology in exhaled breath disease analysis
Exhaled breath analysis has attracted considerable attention as a noninvasive and portable health diagnosis method due to numerous advantages, such as convenience, safety, simplicity, and avoidance of discomfort. Based on many studies, exhaled breath analysis is a promising medical detection technology capable of diagnosing different diseases by analyzing the concentration, type and other characteristics of specific gases. In the existing gas an…
One of a kind: Humans have unique breathing 'fingerprints' that may signal health status
A study published in Current Biology demonstrates that scientists can identify individuals based solely on their breathing patterns with 96.8% accuracy. These nasal respiratory "fingerprints" also offer insights into physical and mental health.
Inhale and exhale: that’s your breathing footprint. Each human being has a unique and consistent pattern of nasal breathing. So consistent that it is possible to identify a person only by how he breathes. This is what determined a new study published this Thursday in Current Biology that followed 100 participants — some of them up to two years — to know how breathing is unique in each individual. And how, through it, you can get information abou…
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