Dr Hossam Haick from the Technion, developed an electronic nose for diagnosis of diseases via breath samples. Dr Haick's previous studies have shown that an electronic nose based on gold nanoparticles could form the basis of an inexpensive and non- invasive diagnostic tool for lung cancer (Peng, Tisch et al. 2009) and kidney diseases (Haick, Hakim et al. 2009).