Alex Wiltschko

We don't want to have to stick a needle in young people or in old people.

And we also want our answers almost instantly.

And so we have to use not the molecules circulating in the liquids inside of us, but the molecules that are always escaping through our skin.

We want to tap into that.

We know that air is data and we just call that smell.

That's the tag that we use for the data that's in the air that we detect.

Why don't we go start to collect a database of that?

So that's the real missing piece.

Now, once you know what you're looking for and you start to correlate the data that we constantly exhaust with disease or with health states,

You have to build a device which anybody can have and hold that can tap into that.

And you actually probably use different technologies for collecting the gold truth data versus the stuff that's pervasively available.

So we're probably at the state now where we can do a Framingham study for cents.

We're not at the state technologically where anybody can have a device the size of a coffee cup or a cell phone that can actually detect that.

You'd still have to go into the laboratory.

We have devices that are pretty good, and they're about the size of two shoeboxes, but we don't know because we haven't done the dataset collection.

We don't know if they're good enough for disease detection.

So there's still more work to be done.

Yeah.

Boy, I mean, here's what I've learned about smell over working on it and thinking about it for a while, which is what's on the inside gets to the outside.

And there's a reason why a big chunk of the middle of our face is dedicated to analyzing it.