A health start-up is harnessing the power of beagles' extraordinary sense of smell to revolutionize early cancer detection.

SpotitEarly, a biotech company that’s a part of Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, is developing an at-home cancer test that analyzes human breath using dogs’ exceptional sense of smell ...

Dogs are famous for their incredible noses—but can they really detect cancer? Both countless real-life stories from dog owners and cutting-edge scientific research point to the same conclusion: the ...

Individual dogs’ personalities, and how we interpret their behaviors, may be key to disease sniffing at scale. Billy, a floppy-eared little beagle, darts around a platform sniffing a series of holes.

Breast cancer survivor Breanna Bortner credits her dog with the early detection of her cancer. A young woman’s dog was the first to detect her deadly breast cancer. In June 2023, Breanna Bortner, then ...

These clever dogs are the first in the UK to be trained to sniff out bowel cancer. The Medical Detection Dogs Charity began a ...

A dog's superior sense of smell is helping to detect cancer at its earliest stages. Researchers take blood plasma from cancer patients and place them into one of eight canisters for the pups to sniff ...

Breanna Bortner says her dog had a hand — or a paw — in saving her life. "I had always heard stories where people, you know, say that their dogs could sense things," the Minnesota woman, now 31, told ...

Israeli startup SpotitEarly launched in the U.S. on Thursday, aiming to close a significant gap in the cancer diagnostics market. The company is developing a breath-based early detection test for ...

Dogs have a truly astonishing sense of smell that goes far beyond anything we could imagine. From picking up the scent of a potential mate miles away to uncovering an explosive, a dog's nose is always ...