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MIT's Aditya Garg develops sensor to detect pneumonia from breath
The research builds on earlier work by Sangeeta Bhatia, whose team developed nanoparticle-based biomarkers that respond to disease-specific enzymes.
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Pranavi Sharma - Mon, 04, May 2026
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Loza Tadesse and Aditya Garg standing next to a Raman microscope / MIT
Aditya Garg, an Indian-origin researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has helped develop a portable sensor that can detect pneumonia from a patient’s breath, offering a faster alternative to conventional diagnostic methods.
Garg, a postdoctoral researcher in mechanical engineering at MIT and the study’s first author, said the system is designed for rapid, point-of-care use. “In practice, we envision that a patient would inhale nanoparticles and, within about 10 minutes, exhale a synthetic biomarker that reports on lung status,” Garg told MIT. “Our new PlasmoSniff technology would enable detection of these exhaled biomarkers within minutes at the point of care.”
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