Dogs can use their incredible sense of smell to sniff out various forms of cancer in human breath, blood and urine samples. Similarly, in the lab a much simpler organism, the roundworm C. elegans, ...

You've probably heard stories about dogs that can sniff out cancer in humans, but what about nematodes? These tiny worms, which measure only about a millimeter in length, are attracted to the odor ...

Researchers have proposed a dirt-cheap diagnostic tool using nematodes to smell for cancer -- a practical alternative to disease-sniffing dogs. Nari Jang But even a very good “doctor dog” can only do ...

New research presented at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society has demonstrated how tiny roundworms can be used to detect lung cancer. A “worm-on-a-chip” device has been developed that ...