“Research at the University of Warwick have taken high tech gas sensors normally used to test components for premium cars and applied the same techniques to human blood, human urine, and even cow dung samples from local cow pats. The results could lead to a new high tech medical tool that could provide a fast diagnosis for some of the most difficult gastrointestinal illnesses and metabolic diseases.” Read more here.
This discovery is the benefit of the medical industry in diagnose many difficult diseases very quickly. Learning from the human blood and urine, and also the cow dung, could lead to a new device that could prove very useful and very quick at diagnosing very difficult diseases and illnesses. This device could provide easy access to the colon making research much easier.
This is a beneficial discovery indeed. Because the colon is difficult to access, studying fermentation and the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) it generates directly is a problem.
However the researchers devised a solution to this problem by using a special suite of equipment usually for testing car components for premium cars. The equipment heats car samples to see what range of “volatile chemicals” (essentially gases) are put out from car components to understand what results that would have for air quality in the car and how it might affect the future recycling of the material.
Not only are people concerned with the colon research but also with pollution. This is very beneficial indeed.
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