The bees’ highly sensitive odorant receptors react to specific molecules, and these reactions can be monitored to indicate the presence of lung cancer. Honeybees: Masters of Scent Detection ...

The bees could also distinguish between different types of lung cancer. A bee secured with blue wax in a 3D-printed harness in lab studies to to explore whether the insects can detect cancer ...

Once again, the bees not only reacted to the tumors but also distinguished different lung cancer cell lines, an important differentiation for the clinical treatment of various forms of the disease.

They found that the bees, known for their sharp sense of smell, had an 88% success rate at detecting the synthetic breath that contained cancer cells and differentiating between different types of ...

The World Health Organization noted in 2020 that lung cancer claimed 1.8 million lives around the globe, and early detection using methods like this could go a long way towards preventing them.

It might take a billion cancer cells to show up in a scan, but the locust-powered device can detect cancer cells once there is 100 million, Saha said.

Aug. 27, 2024 — Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence which can differentiate cancer cells from normal cells, as well as detect the very early stages of viral infection inside cells.