Instant Genius Podcast: Medical Detection Dogs, with Dr Claire Guest

Dr Claire Guest is the co-founder of the Medical Detection Dogs charity. She explains how dogs are able to sniff out cancer and how this incredible skill is being deployed around the world.

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Daniel Bennett

Published: October 15, 2022 at 11:37 am

Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week's episode, we talk to Dr Claire Guest.

She is the co-founder of the Medical Detection Dogs charity.

In this episode of Instant Genius, Guest explains the incredible abilities of dogs to sniff out cancer. She outlines how they do it and how this is now being deployed in real world situations.

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Editor, BBC Science Focus

Daniel Bennett is the Editor of BBC Science Focus. He is an award-winning journalist who’s been reporting on science and technology for over a decade, writing about the science of serial killers, sandwiches, supernovae and almost everything in between. In 2019 and 2021 he was named the Science and Technology Editor of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors and was shortlisted for the Editor of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers and the Professional Publishers Association. His particular areas of interest are psychology, health and future tech.

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