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Developed smartphone for cancer diagnosis

telefonSmartphone SniffPhone included in the list of the 100 most important digital development. The new smartphone gives an opportunity to diagnose the cancer. And it can be done only in the exhaled air.

System SniffPhone being finalized, but interested in many. The device with the help of miniature sensors analyzes the composition of the air and transmits it to the center for data analysis. There with the help of special programs is determined by the probability of the presence of the tumor.

A few years ago a Professor at the Technion was suggested the creation of an "artificial nose" that can diagnose cancer. This idea was borrowed from nature, as animals with an acute sense of smell caught the signs of the disease in the air exhaled by the person. Now scientists assign this mission on modern gadgets.