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Ants trained to sniff out breast cancer with surprising accuracy

Por: Newsweek Health January 25, 2023

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A new tool for cancer detection could be crawling around in your backyard.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... + full article



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