#Tuberculosis detector would ferret out disease faster - The Globe and Mail
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Grand Challenges Canada, a government-funded development agency, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are injecting $950,000 to support the development of this potentially ground-breaking technology. If it can successfully detect tuberculosis from biomarkers in breath, the electronic nose would drastically reduce the cost and wait for diagnosis, hasten treatment and lower transmission of the lethal disease.
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