OU research which uses dogs to 'sniff' for cancer

OU research with dogs who can find cancer cells in biological samples has been demonstrated to the Royal Family, in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen, this week (6 June 2018).

Dr Clara Mancini, Senior Lecturer in Computing and Communications at the OU, and Head of the OU’s Animal-Computer Interaction Lab, was invited to Buckingham Palace to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the charity Medical Detection Dogs.

Dr Mancini has been collaborating with the charity since 2013, when she began researching ways to support the work of dogs who can detect the odour of cancer and other diseases from volatile compounds in body fluids, such as urine, sweat or breath.

Watch the video to see how this works.