Bees take over cancer diagnosis

The British company Inscentinel issued a statement: you can train bees, teaching them to identify certain types of cancer at an early stage of development, says Zee News.

Based on this idea, the Portuguese designer Suzanne Soares developed glass apparatus embodying two trained bees.

The idea is that if the bees detect smell that they have been taught to react, they immediately rush into the small cavity where there is flavor. Professionals interested in the smell contained breathing person. Bees are able to detect odors imperceptible to the human nose, thanks to the special sensitivity to odors.

Bees trained, first giving them a sniff certain smell associated with cancer, and then feeding them sugar. Thus, in the brain of insects smell and entrenched Association awards. The idea of ​​a cancer diagnosis on a person's breath is not new. For example, actual breathing diagnose colorectal cancer. Already created a corresponding test, trapping volatile organic compounds associated with the activity of tumors. Estimation accuracy is 76%.

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