Can dogs sniff cancer? AI joins the hunt in India.
A beagle sniffs a sample during a test inside a laboratory at the Dognosis facility in Kempohalli village on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, on July 28. | AFP-JIJI
Bengaluru, India – When rescue dog Chloe is not tumbling across the grass on a farm outside India’s tech capital Bengaluru, she is learning to sniff human breath for cancer with a little help from artificial intelligence.
Fitted with a 3D-printed helmet and harness packed with sensors, Chloe is part of experimental efforts to use dogs’ extraordinary sense of smell to develop a noninvasive test for the disease.
A growing body of global research suggests dogs can be trained to detect cancer and other human illnesses, from Parkinson’s to COVID-19.
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