Paws for Thought
This was one of two projects produced by the Communicators in Residence to support researcher-led communication projects. This film showcases the work by Professor Jane Davies (National Heart and Lung Institute), Dr John King (NHS Trust), the Medical Detection Dogs charity, and the CF Trust to use the extraordinary ability of dogs to detect bacterial infection in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis.
Produced by Olivia Jani, Clare Baker, Robert Miller and Mayah Pico.
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Watch this film on how researchers are training dogs to detect Pseudomonas infection in children with cystic fibrosis. This exciting work may provide a way of detecting harmful bacterial lung infections in a non-invasive way.