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SNIFFING OUT TROUBLE Scientists at a small California clinic said last week they had trained dogs to confirm diagnoses of lung and breast cancer by sniffing patients' breath samples. Skeptical but intrigued, experts say it's not time to swap lab tests for Labradors...
...work at the forensics division of the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory at the University of California at Davis, the CSI of the four-legged world. The humble surroundings bear only slight resemblance to the flashy labs you see on TV crime shows, but the division's record of success reads like a Hollywood script. In its first year of operation, the lab helped prosecutors win a tricky sexual-assault conviction in Iowa in which the key clue was dog urine (the victim was unable to identify the suspect, but her dog had relieved itself on his truck during the assault). "Once...
...forensics lab was established in 1999 out of necessity. The university's genetics lab, which specializes in verifying horses' lineages, was getting more forensic requests than it could handle. "Police labs are only set up to do human work, and they were overwhelmed with that," Wictum says. "If they had animal evidence, they would just set it aside...
...goes according to plan in Church’s lab, he said he expects to finish...
Traditionally, researchers have had to promise these volunteers that the information in their DNA would be kept secret, leaving the researchers vulnerable to lawsuits if this data was accidentally made public. Church’s lab, however, is using only those volunteers who do not care about the release of their genetic data for one reason or another...