A team of researchers primarily based out of Sorbonne University in Paris has trained ants to recognize the subtle scent of cancer cells, hinting at their tantalizing potential to detect cancers in humans. The researchers’ fascinating findings were recently published in the journal iScience. Widely known for their remarkable ability to cooperate and their ridiculous relative strength (able to carry between 10 and 50 times their own body weight), ants have only recently been lauded for their keen sense of smell. In 2012, scientists at Vanderbilt discovered that they have four to five times more…
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