Ants Trained To Sniff Out Breast Cancer With Surprising Accuracy
In a study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, a team of French researchers at the University of Sorbonne Paris North demonstrated that ants have the potential to act as early stage cancer detectors. “We knew that ants can be easily trained,” Baptiste Piqueret, who led the study, told Newsweek. “Furthermore, they have a refined sense of smell. We then combined these two abilities and tested whether ants were able to detect the smell of cancer or not....