SpiraMed hopes to initiate the creation of hundreds of jobs and significant revenue with these products. SpiraMed became interested in a NASA Ames' Research Center technology developed to determine the historical existence of life on other planets. SpiraMed believed the technology could be used as a basis for its medical diagnostics equipment because the analysis of carbon isotope ratios in soil and in breath can use the same technology. A prototype of the NASA laser spectroscopic analysis equipment which will perform the analysis of breath to detect diseases. Today the methods used to diagnose internal bodily functions include blood testing and unpleasant invasive probes.
Results can take days to weeks to arrive.
SpiraMeds' method will save time, money and be more comfortable for the patient. Breath contains carbon elements that vary based upon the type of food eaten and how the body processes it. A pill containing certain inert materials is ingested and processed by the body. Within 30 minutes of ingesting the pill, the patient's breath can be analyzed. SpiraMed requested Far West's assistance accessing and commercializing the technology.