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Scents and Sense-Abilities: Using Bug Brainpower to Smell Cancer
Scientists use locust brains as living biosensors to perform cancer cell breath tests.
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Harnessing insect olfactory neural circuits for detecting and discriminating human cancers
There is overwhelming evidence that presence of cancer alters cellular metabolic processes, and these changes are manifested in emitted volatile organic compound (VOC) co …
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