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It's a shame that this only works with volatiles. A blood glucose breathalyzer would be awesome, not to mention a $B/year market.
by cperciva 11y ago
It's a shame that this only works with volatiles. A blood glucose breathalyzer would be awesome, not to mention a $B/year market.
- gus_massa 11y agoI think that detecting glucose in the air is impossible, but perhaps it can detect some byproduct that is produced during a glucose spike. I guess something like alcohol. (For example, yeast produce a small amount of alcohol from glucose, because it doesn't use enough oxygen to transform it to carbon dioxide. At the low level, people is not so different of yeast. :) So this or a similar approach may work.) IANAB/MD/...
- cperciva 11y agoUnfortunately signals like that would get swamped by the effects of oral and gastric flora. This is how Helicobacter pylori is detected, in fact.