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There's a slightly longer press release about the Alzheimers findings at http://www.monell.org/news/news_releases/alzheimers_disease_...; searching for the co-authors' names led to what appears to be the paper: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep19495

"Volatile metabalome" sounds so much more scholarly than "pee smell"!

It's has comments definitely worth rereading in light of this story.

On a related note, dogs can be trained to detect (smell) cancer cells from patients' breath. Looks like McCoys medical tricorder should have a nose.