Bengaluru, India, Sept 9, 2026 (AFP) - Can dogs sniff cancer? AI joins the hunt in India

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2026-09-09

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 AI. 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 non-invasive test for the disease. A growing body of global research suggests dogs can be trained to detect ca......

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