Does something smell fishy? A new sensor developed by scientists at Lund University in Sweden can provide a chemically accurate answer to that question by acting as a simple electronic nose (SN: 2/19/2000, p. 125: Eau, Brother!).
As fish spoil, microbes break down amino acids and produce compounds such as histamine, putrescine, and cadaverine.
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