'Smell of death' could help sniffer dogs

Monday, March 14, 2016 - 08:00 in Health & Medicine

Forensic toxicologists have pinpointed the specific chemical compounds emitted by decaying human bodies in an effort to improve police sniffer dogs' ability to find buried bodies, vastly reducing the number of so-called 'false positive' results.

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