{"id":126576,"date":"2021-08-21T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T19:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/these-sniffer-dogs-are-learning-to-smell-the-coronavirus"},"modified":"2021-08-21T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T19:25:04","slug":"these-sniffer-dogs-are-learning-to-smell-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/these-sniffer-dogs-are-learning-to-smell-the-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"These sniffer dogs are learning to smell the coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-sniffer-dogs-are-learning-to-smell-the-coronavirus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the disease swept the globe and scientists deployed tools such as <a>polymerase chain reaction tests <\/a>to detect the novel coronavirus in people, a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s School of Veterinary Medicine worked to determine if dogs could also be trained to find infections.<\/p>\n<p>The proof-of-concept study, published in April in the journal <a><i>PLOS ONE<\/i><\/a>, showed that the virus has an odor that trained dogs can identify in urine and saliva. Now, the researchers\u2014with the help of Tuuka, Griz, Toby, Rico, and Roxie\u2014are examining whether canines can sniff out coronavirus\u2019 scent in sweaty T-shirts.<\/p>\n<p>If the dogs can accurately detect it on clothing, they could patrol places such as airports and stadiums to sniff out the virus in public settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the disease swept the globe and scientists deployed tools such as polymerase chain reaction tests to detect the novel coronavirus in people, a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s School of Veterinary Medicine worked to determine if dogs could also be trained to find infections. The proof-of-concept study, published in April in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}