http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/dogs-sniff-out-cancer.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:25:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/dogs-sniff-out-cancer.html/comment-page-1#comment-100344 SmellScientist Thu, 10 May 2007 20:28:25 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=282#comment-100344 Man's breast friend?! That dogs can sniff out cancer is now quite well documented, in the UK and USA, and elsewhere. Today the baton - or should that be smell? - is being taken up by 'electronic nose' teams, both commercial and academic. The 'doggie' and 'e-nose' folk will be represented at a forthcoming Workshop in the UK (see www.semiochemica.org.uk/semiochem.html), and the special guest is a prize-winning young e-nose researcher from Israel. Cancer-spotting sniffers are looking at lung cancer, prostate cancer, bladder cancer and others. The smell science doesn't end with things sniffing us, however. Our ability to smell - or the lack of it - will be discussed in detail on Day 1. Did you know that many cases of Parkinson's Disease are beginning to be predicted by a dip in the ability to recognise smells? All that and more on July 24-5 2007 in Wye, Kent. Man’s breast friend?! That dogs can sniff out cancer is now quite well documented, in the UK and USA, and elsewhere. Today the baton – or should that be smell? – is being taken up by ‘electronic nose’ teams, both commercial and academic. The ‘doggie’ and ‘e-nose’ folk will be represented at a forthcoming Workshop in the UK (see http://www.semiochemica.org.uk/semiochem.html), and the special guest is a prize-winning young e-nose researcher from Israel. Cancer-spotting sniffers are looking at lung cancer, prostate cancer, bladder cancer and others. The smell science doesn’t end with things sniffing us, however. Our ability to smell – or the lack of it – will be discussed in detail on Day 1. Did you know that many cases of Parkinson’s Disease are beginning to be predicted by a dip in the ability to recognise smells? All that and more on July 24-5 2007 in Wye, Kent.

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