Honey bees can be trained to detect cancer "in ten minutes" says designer

November 22 2013 The bees are placed in a glass chamber into which the patient exhales; the bees fly into a smaller secondary chamber if the...


November 22 2013

The bees are placed in a glass chamber into which the patient exhales; the bees fly into a smaller secondary chamber if they detect cancer.

"Trained bees only rush into the smaller chamber if they can detect the odour on the patient's breath that they have been trained to target," explained Soares, who presented her Bee's project at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven last month.

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