The locust will help invent a revolutionary cancer test.

June 27, 2022

Dogs and other animals with an incredibly sensitive sense of smell are able to sense the illnesses of people in the earliest phases. It is expensive to train so many dogs, so scientists have gone the other way - they are trying to "hack" the brain of locusts, which in theory can also feel the disease. If you can understand how these areas work, you might be able to mimic the process to create quick tests, even for cancer.