Diabetic alert dogs can even sniff out changes in the blood that occur when blood sugars becomes too low or too high. In a Quora thread posing the question 'does cancer have an odor?', more than ...

A 2019 study suggested that blood-sniffing dogs may become the latest frontier in cancer detection. Thanks to their unfathomably keen sense of smell — which is 10,000 times more accurate than a ...

“If this works, we can roll it out rapidly.” Working on the assumption that breast cancer cells have a distinguishing smell that sensitive dog noses will pick up, the team collected samples ...

In a proof-of-concept study, researchers used dogs’ diagnoses of prostate cancer to inform a machine learning algorithm with the goal of one day detecting cancers with canine-level accuracy. The ...

New research shows that a dog’s emotional outlook—like optimism—can enhance scent detection accuracy in medical training ...

Dogs smell like corn chips because of the bacteria and yeast that make up their microbiomes. Owners can mitigate the smell by bathing dogs more regularly and practicing fold care. A strong ...

The effectiveness of the smell of dogs is known to detect and ... be trained and would be effective in detecting some types of cancer in humans. It has been shown that a certain species of ...

In honor of National Corn Chip Day on January 29, veterinarian Dr. Audrey Wystrach explains why a dog's paws can smell like corn chips Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...