From Military To Medicine, Owlstone Medical Targets Lung Cancer With Its Breath Analysis Tech
Executive Summary
Owlstone Medical is on a mission to “save 100,000 lives and £1.5bn in health-care costs by 2020” by applying a gas sensor technology, originally developed for military defense purposes, for early stage detection of lung cancer.
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