Cancer-sniffing ability in dogs demonstrated in new study
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It has long been suspected that man&#39;s best friend has a special ability to sense when something is wrong with us. Now the first experiment to verify that scientifically has demonstrated that dogs are able to smell cancer.
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Exercise and a diet fortified with vitamins, fruits and vegetables helped older dogs learn new tricks and kept them spry in an experiment that scientists said could teach humans a thing or two.
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Dogs trained by a British charity have played a central role in ground-breaking research into bladder cancer, it was announced today.
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SEPANG, Malaysia  - Malaysia deployed two sniffer  dogs in its battle against music and movie piracy on Tuesday,  becoming the first country in the world to use the animals to  hunt for disks of illegal recordings hidden in cargo. Two  female Black Labradors, "Flo" and "Lucky," demonstrated their  technique by sniffing through piles of sealed cartons in an air  cargo hangar and then signaling their handler about a suspect  package by sitting down in front of it.
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LONDON  - The acute sense of smell that makes dogs useful for detecting illegal substances at airports might also be used to help doctors diagnosis bladder cancer, researchers reported this week in the British Medical Journal.
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Insight into our sense of smell -- how we perceive and remember odors -- has won the Nobel Prize in medicine for American researchers Dr.
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They already help the blind, sniff for drugs at the airport and can find survivors buried deep in rubble. Now it seems man&#39;s best friend can also smell cancer.
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A new study reveals that the ability to detect a certain male hormone in sweat is genetic. What that tells us about the science of smell--and why some women like sweaty men.
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Researchers have found that people can follow a scent surprisingly well â as long as they do not mind abandoning their dignity.
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Scientists have discovered a new cancer-causing gene that they believe could be a molecular master switch for the disease.
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ritish researchers have trained dogs to detect bladder cancer by sniffing human urine, opening up the possibility that dogs - or electronic noses modeled on their snouts - may one day be used to detect the disease.
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Researchers from the Wales College Of Medicine, Cardiff University in the UK have discovered what may be a clue to the prevention and treatment of cancer.
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The study indicates the human brain compares information it gets from each nostril to get clues about where a smell is coming from. And it suggests dogs, mice and other mammals do the same thing, contrary to what most scientists have thought.
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Scientists say a simple smell test may be able to help doctors identify certain people at risk for developing Alzheimer&#39;s disease.
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Dogs are being trained to sniff out bladder cancer from patients&#39; urine, according to researchers. Six dogs were trained to pick out urine samples of patients with bladder cancer from those of people with other diseases and healthy individuals.
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When it comes to a man's body odor, the fragrance -- or stench -- is in the nose of the beholder, according to U.S. researchers who suggest a single gene may determine how people perceive body odor.
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SIX dogs from the Saunderton based charity, Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, have shown that dogs can be trained to detect bladder cancer.