I SPOKE WITH THE OWNER OF A LOCAL COMPANY THAT’S HELPING TRAIN AND PROVIDE COVID-19 SENT DETECTION DOGS. REALLY ANY SORT OF LARGE EVENT GATHERINGS SPORTING ARENAS WAYS CONVENTION CENTERS YOU KNOW ...

Dogs rely on scent in ways that still surprise researchers. They have up to 300 million olfactory receptors, compared to ...

According to a recent study, dogs trained to detect scent may be able to identify significantly lower concentrations of odour molecules than has previously been documented. According to a recent study ...

A recent study published in Prion investigated whether trained scent-detection dogs could be used for chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance. CWD is a fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy ...

With up to 300 million scent receptors, dogs are among the best smell detectors in the animal world. The human nose, by comparison, contains only around 6 million scent receptors. Dog brains also ...

Learn how dogs can detect cancer and diabetes in humans using their extraordinary sense of smell, alerting owners to health ...

An interesting new medRxiv* preprint reveals that with careful training, the exquisite scent sensitivity of dogs may be exploited to rule out the presence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in ...

Penn Vet Working Dog Center was founded in 2012 and serves as a national research and development center for detection dogs. “The center was founded after Dr. Cindy Otto served in 9-11 as a ...

According to a recent study, dogs trained to detect scent may be able to identify significantly lower concentrations of odour molecules than has previously been documented. A study carried out by the ...