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Bee's Project 

1/18/2015

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Portuguese designer Susana Soares has developed a device for detecting cancer and other serious diseases using trained bees. 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. 

Scientific research has demonstrated that bees (Apis mellifera) have an extraordinarily acute sense of smell and can be trained to perform health checks by detecting a specific odour in peoples’ breath. 

The project consists in a series of alternative diagnostic tools that use bees to diagnose accurately at an early stage of a vast variety of diseases.

Source: SusanaSoares
La diseñadora portuguesa Susana Soares ha desarrollado un dispositivo para la detección de cáncer y otras enfermedades graves utilizando abejas entrenadas. Las abejas se colocan en una cámara de vidrio en el que el paciente exhala; las abejas vuelan en una cámara secundaria más pequeña si detectan el cáncer.

La investigación científica ha demostrado que las abejas (Apis mellifera) tienen un sentido extraordinariamente agudo del olfato y pueden ser entrenados para realizar controles de salud al detectar un olor específico en el aliento de las personas.

El proyecto consiste en una serie de herramientas de diagnóstico alternativos que utilizan las abejas para diagnosticar con precisión en una etapa temprana una amplia variedad de enfermedades.

Fuente: SusanaSoares
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