Dog's Nose vs. Electronic Explosives Detector, Who Would Win?

#bombsniffer #k9 #bombdetector #chemicaldetector

What’s better at finding a hidden bomb--a dog, or an electronic chemical detector? Let’s find out.

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Executive Producers:
George Zaidan
Hilary Hudson

Producers:
Andrew Sobey
Elaine Seward

Writer/Host:
Sam Jones, PhD

Scientific consultants:
Lauryn DeGreef, PhD
Leila Duman, PhD
Mark Fisher, PhD
Simon Gadbois, PhD
Braden C. Giordano, PhD
Eileen Jenkins, DVM
Steven Munger, PhD
Brianne Raccor, PhD

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Detection dogs https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Prostate cancer and dog sense of smell https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3...

Sniffing animals as a diagnostic tool in infectious diseases https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3...

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The Limits of Detection https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-d...

Sniffing Out Bombs: Canine vs. Machine https://www.wired.com/2002/04/sniffin...

Can next-generation bomb ‘sniffing’ technology outdo dogs on explosives detection?
https://theconversation.com/can-next-...

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America Is Running Out of Bomb-Sniffing Dogs [2017 article] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/op...

Dog sniffing at the superbowl https://abcnews.go.com/US/mans-best-f...

Birds and Dogs: Toward a Comparative Perspective on Odor Use and Detection https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

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Explosives-sniffing grasshoppers? https://www.newscientist.com/article/...

Sniffer dogs in the melanoma clinic? (This is the first study that indicated dogs might be able to sniff out cancers, but it was a case study) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...

Canine scent detection for the diagnosis of lung cancer in a screening-like situation https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

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DARPA Dog’s Nose
https://www.discovermagazine.com/tech...



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