The Product
3 Easy Steps:
1. Exhale into the disposable disease specific pod
2. Insert the pod into the reading device
3. Wait for the results!
Pods and devices will be made available for purchase at your nearest pharmacy, drug store, or hospital
Purchase the disease specific pods by themselves and test at a designated testing location
>70% risk rate, go see a doctor
VOC profile will be stored in a database
Or buy the device along with the pods and test anywhere you go!
Our product will lead the market with technologies in sensitivity, specificity, reliability, and convenient accessibility to detect. Unlike our competitors, our product does not require the samples to be analyzed in a lab. The analysis happens at your home.
How does it work?
Volatile Organic Compounds
VOCs & Disease
Volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, are chemicals produced by metabolic processes in the body and are present in exhaled breath. These VOCs produced by the body are referred to as endogenous, while VOCs produced by the environment are exogenous. Diseases disrupt and change the body's normal metabolic processes, and this disruption is manifested in the endogenous VOC profile.
The Device & VOCs
The device that Biomed Armour is developing will screen for specific diseases by using the specific resonance properties of the target VOCs that we have identified through extensive reviews and research on disease-specific VOC profiles. So, comparing various target VOC profiles associated with specific diseases to healthy VOC profiles based on their resonance properties will allow the device to determine whether the exhaled breath of the user has a VOC profile characteristic of a disease or not.
Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM)
Hybrid QCM
The device will be incorporating a QCM to specifically target the presence of cancer
What are the benefits?
1. High sensitivity enables early detection
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2. High reliability can provide specificity and accuracy​
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3. Convenience due to the simplicity of the pod-readout machine,
non-invasiveness, and portability
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This device will contain patented technology that is able to capture the target VOCs in the breath that are associated with specific diseases and pre-concentrate the compounds so that they may be analyzed effectively. Once the capsule containing the concentrated VOCs has been inserted into the machine, it will then determine the amount of the specified VOCs present in the exhaled breath through the use of nanosensors that will analyze the resonance properties of the VOCs. This amount will then be compared to healthy VOC profiles. The user will then receive the results from the machine, which will show the percent chance of the user having the disease.