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Mobile phone breath test that could check for signs of cancer 'available in two years

29 April 2014 - 11:00 | Technological innovations
Mobile phone breath test that could check for signs of cancer 'available in two years

' The inventors, at Cambridge University spin-off company Owlstone, have already created a desktop ‘disease breathalyser’ which is proven to work. Now they are miniaturising their technology further, to create a small add-on device that simply slots into the base of a mobile. The firm – set up a decade ago by three engineering graduates – started out making machines to help oil firms detect contamination, and US anti-terror agencies pick up traces of explosives… 

"The Daily Mail"