Glyconics: Infrared Spectroscopy To Detect And Manage COPD
Executive Summary
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease remains a particularly difficult disease to accurately diagnose, with little improvement over the last 30 years. UK-based Glyconics Ltd. hopes to reliably detect COPD with an easy, five-minute, in-office procedure that uses a sputum sample to identify a handful of proprietary biomarkers specific for the disease.