parkinson’s-disease-(pd)

Athens

October 21, 2023
portable-diagnostic-kit, volatile-organic-compounds-(vocs), parkinson’s-disease-(pd)
diagnostics

Athens # ScentiPD # The goal of our project is the creation of a portable diagnostic kit for the detection and quantification of specific Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) from skin sebum. Those compounds have been associated with Parkinson’s Disease (PD), with evidence pointing to their change in concentration occurring long before the evident onset of the disease. The alternative way to measure these compounds would be a GC/MS machine, with obvious drawbacks. ...