COLLABORATION. During the European Respiratory Society Congress (ERS), a major event which recently concluded in Milan, several studies based on the PExA method were presented. PExA is a new method to monitor small airways by the measurement of droplets, i.e. particles, in exhaled air. Anna-Carin Olin, who leads the research group on breath analyses that has developed the PExA method, summarizes that the method had something of a breakthrough at…