Professor Steve Cunningham, Consultant & Honorary Professor in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, has provided comment for the Tomorrow’s World exhibition at the Science Museum, London.
Professor Cunningham’s comment has been displayed in the ‘points of view’ section of an exhibition case for the ReCIVA breath sampler - a medical device that collects breath samples to be analysed for VOC biomarkers. The ReCIVA is currently being used in Owlstone’s LuCID lung cancer detection project and also in studies of childhood asthma.
Professor Cunnningham says of the device:
“If patients with asthma could know when they were at risk of getting an asthma attack they could act to stop it getting worse. As an asthma attack develops the lungs get more inflamed, so measuring molecules carried on the breath from deep in the lung makes good sense. Technologies like the the ReCIVA breath sampler make an important contribution to this goal.”
Tomorrow’s World exhibition is open daily, with free admission.
Links
Link to the ReCIVA breath sampler Science Museum video
Link to the Tomorrow’s World section of the Science Museum website
Link to the ReCIVA breath sampler product page on the Owlstone Medical website