Does Disease Have A Smell?

Published: 21 April 2016
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For thousands of years, medical professionals have diagnosed illness based on their patient’s scent. How do humans, dogs and machines smell disease today?

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Bestic, L. (2015). The nose knows. New Scientist, 227(3028), 34-37.

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