It doesn't get much cooler than this!
Dogs have been used for many things in science throughout history: diabetic emergencies, seizure warnings, and much more! In 2004 scientist really started putting dogs' sense of smell to work; they believe there is a distinguishable smell between healthy and cancerous tissue. They are hoping to manufacture nanotechnology that can detect cancerous tissue as small as 1/100,000 of a piece of paper! For the time being lung, breast, bladder, melanoma, and prostate cancerous tissue are being tested.
Mcbaine, a black and white Springer, working with Penn Vet Working Dog Center, has
been carefully trained to sniff out cancerous tissues.
During a routine test, 12 tiny arms pertrude from a small table. Each holding a small
blood plasma sample, one with a drop of cancerous tissue. Mcbaine made one, focued pass around the table and made a confident decision at sample #11, the cancerous-tissue sample.
It is truly amazing what our dogs can do, they continue to amaze me every day!
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