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Volatile biomarkers play a significant signalling role in
communication between biological cells living as individual
entities or as mini-societies that sense, respond and adapt to
changes in their environment. In this process, volatile biomarkers
can leak into the blood, from which they can be secreted into most
body fluids (blood, breath, skin, urine, saliva, feces, etc.), from
which sensing devices can capture and interpret their chemical
fingerprint to reflect any association with health disorders in a
fast, easy, and minimally non-invasive manner. This book introduces
the concept of biomarkers within the body in terms of basic and
translational sciences. It starts with a comprehensive review of
the expression and mechanistic pathways involving volatile
biomarkers at single cell and (micro)organism levels, cell-to-cell
and cell-to-organism communications, and their secretion into body
fluids. It discusses several ways for discovering and detecting the
secreted biomarkers using mass spectrometry and other spectroscopic
techniques. This is followed by an appraisal and translation of the
accumulating knowledge from the laboratory to the Point-of-Care
phase, using selective sensors as well as desktop and wearable
artificial sensing devices, e.g., electronic noses and electronic
skins, in conjugation with AI-assisted data processing and
healthcare decision-making in diagnostics. The book offers an
outlook into the challenges in the continuing development of
volatile biomarkers and their wider availability to healthcare,
which can be substantially improved. It should appeal to research
groups in universities, start-up and large-scale industries
associated in all aspects of biomedicine.
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