Bacteria turn sugars labeled with carbon-13 into detectable carbon dioxide, quickly identifying infections in mice ...
Common causes of shortness of breath include physical deconditioning, obesity, anxiety, asthma, heart failure, heart attack, COPD, and pneumonia. However, feeling out of breath when walking short ...
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco used a naturally occurring carbon isotope and exhaled CO₂ to catch bacterial infections. Bacterial ...
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco used a naturally occurring carbon isotope and exhaled CO 2 to catch bacterial infections.
Infectious diseases are a major cause of death worldwide, and diagnosing bacterial infections remains a challenge in medicine. And doing so reliably is more important than ever, given the increasing ...
Infectious diseases are a major cause of death worldwide, and diagnosing bacterial infections remains a challenge in medicine. And doing so reliably is more important than ever, given the increasing ...
(MEMPHIS, Tenn. – March 18, 2026) Bacterial infections can be difficult to distinguish from viral infections and noninfectious inflammation, but a simple breath test may change that. A study led by St ...
A new type of breath test can spot potentially deadly bacterial infections in just 10 minutes, say scientists. It could enable doctors to diagnose infections such as pneumonia much quicker - without ...