There is apparently a lot to be learned from the smell of someone's breath, says Brown University grad student Katie Pratt on the Benchfly blog. The volatile organic compounds naturally present in a person's breath — a normal by-product of cellular metabolism — could soon be used to detect whether that person has cancer, Pratt says.
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