Parents & Screens, BFFs Smell the Same, Locusts Find Cancer
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Cancer Smells Like a Locust
A new study shows that locusts can distinguish between different cancer cell lines using our breath. This work could provide information for instruments to eventually use similar sensory neurons, which are nerve cells that are activated from the environment from insects to detect cancer early. These kinds of devices do exist, as you just told me about with the E-nose, but they're too expensive to mass produce. With this discovery, we could possibly mass produce and enhanced E-nosed within just a few years.
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