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Cancer-sniffing fruit flies start to glow if they smell sickness
February 12, 2014 /
A lot of animals have an amazing sense of smell, so they can often pick up things that even sensitive odor sensing machines might miss. We already know that dogs and even bees have an impressive ability to sniff out diseased cells, but now a group of scientists in Germany have genetically modified fruit flies so their antennae glow if they smell cancer cells.
Michael Trei
Full Story: http://www.dvice.com/2014-1-30/cancer-sniffing-fruit-flies-start-glow-if-they-smell-sickness
Many thanks to David Nelson for sharing this.
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