00:00Dogs have been trained, who have sharper senses of smell than we do, to detect COVID, cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's.
00:07And so every one of those diseases has a signature.
00:11For Osmo, fragrance is the commercial work paying for that longer-term research.
00:16And the reason is, is like, well, we have to fund ourselves, right, in order to do that.
00:21And the act of making fragrances actually generates data and understanding,
00:24which is strengthening our platform to make even more ambitious bets in the future.
00:30For Alex, that motivation is personal.
00:33His father died of brain cancer, a condition that some evidence suggests has a unique scent.
00:38What we need to uncover is perhaps those are also the same molecules in someone who has brain cancer, like
00:44my father had.
00:44If you have a disease that's developing, there's going to be something that's going to change about the scents that
00:50are leaving your body.
00:51And nobody knows the details of what that is, but we know that dogs can detect it.
00:57What Osmo is, is an organization, a group of people designed to unravel these mysteries, kind of one by one,
01:04in a way that is responsible and resilient and designed to last over time.
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