TechKnow 134: Cancer-sniffing dogs

April 26, 2014 5:00PM ET

How dogs can be trained to detect cancer and new tech that is being developed invented to mimic those results

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Technology
Health

Join "TechKnow" contributors Phil Torres, Cara Santa Maria, Crystal Dilworth and Shini Somara and as they explore scientific innovations and their impact on our lives. Cara reports on a group that is training dogs to detect cancer in breath samples from patients, and the new tech being developed to mimic that test. Plus: can a new "suspended animation" procedure that cools the body buy doctors enough time to save gun shot victims' lives?

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