Jonathan Lawson
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Jonathan Lawson created a post, How could breath analysis be most effectively applied to study the effects and potential risks of dietary supplements and other non-medical interventions?
In her presentation at the Breath Biopsy Conference 2021 Fereshteh Jahanbani presented the results of a Breath Biopsy study looking at the effects of taking SAMe, a dietary supplement. In her prese...
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Jonathan Lawson created a post, How relevant do you think in vitro VOC studies are to helping us understand VOC biomarkers on breath?
Limitations on clinical studies caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led some researchers to focus on in vitro studies to progress their work on VOC biomarkers. Several presentations at the Breath Biops...
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Jonathan Lawson created a post, The biomarker discovery pipeline is broken. How can we change it?
During his keynote at the Breath Biopsy Conference 2021, Patrick Bossuyt asserted that the biomarker discovery pipeline is broken meaning – that a lot of research effort is being spent on early-sta...
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Jonathan Lawson created a post, Breath biomarker study design
Planning ahead and designing your clinical studies with well defined goals is important to getting meaningful results that help to advance the breath research field. It's impossible to fix bad desi...
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Jonathan Lawson created a post, Do we need to understand biology to use breath biomarkers?
The panel discussion at the Breath Biopsy Conference 2020 explored the importance of understanding the biology behind breath biomarkers, a theme that Dr Rianne Fijten also discussed in her blog for...
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Jonathan Lawson created a post, Limonene as a breath biomarker for liver diseases
Several publications investigating breath biomarkers for liver diseases have now reported limonene as a potential option for test development. Limonene is exogenous and so it can be administered be...
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Jonathan Lawson created a post, Analytical techniques for breath research
There are many approaches to breath analysis. Breath Biopsy uses GC-MS because of its strength in high sensitivity detection of a wide range of biomarkers, and we have explored the alternatives mor...
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Jonathan Lawson commented, Much of the presentation and the existing breath tests seem to focus on conditions like IBS, SIBO and intolerances. Is it possible to use breath testing for other GI conditions such as IBD, and to ...
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Jonathan Lawson commented, Official commentHi Milena,We're glad you like the research and we'd be happy to talk to you about it more. We do relative abundance semi-quantification compared to standards, we don't currently have absolute quant...
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Jonathan Lawson created a post, Advice for ReCIVA Users: Harshman et al. (2019) Characterization of standardized breath sampling for off-line field use
A paper by Harshman et al. (2019) in the Journal of Breath Research performed a detailed study of ReCIVA use looking at a number of factors including background noise and thermal desorption (TD) tu...