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Biophysics and bioengineering

Biophysics and bioengineering

Getting inside a dog’s nose with mass spectrometry

09 Jan 2020
Cancer detecting dog
Specially trained dogs can detect the odour of cancer present in a person’s exhaled breath. But how? (Courtesy: CancerDogs, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada)
Dogs trained to sniff out early signs of cancer in human breath are probably detecting large molecul

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