Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/science-nation-this-breathalyzer-reveals-signs-of-disease Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Story It’s the Single Breath Disease Diagnostics Breathalyzer, and when you blow into it, you get tested for a biomarker. Professor Perena Gouma and her team at Stony Brook University in New York developed a sensor chip that is the “brain” of the breathalyzer. It’s coated with tiny nanowires that look like microscopic spaghetti and are able to detect minute amounts of chemical compounds in the breath.