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 Can Ants Help Us Sense Cancer?




    Heyyyy! Hope everyone had a restful and enjoyable spring break as well as a great first week back. I just found this really interesting article about how smell can help healthcare. This is a summary of the article I just read- Ants don't have noses, but they have a strong sense of smell with their antenna located on the top of their heads. In a study published by  Proceedings of the Royal Society B, it was stated that ants were able to differentiate between a mouse with a cancerous tumor and a healthy mouse based on the smell of their urine. This impressive ability can be used in the future to assist in detection of cancer in humans. This can be an inexpensive and accessible way for people to test for cancer and help detect cancer early, ultimately boosting chances of survival. I find this extremely interesting and it looks like a promising way for future detections of cancer. We use our senses everyday and we fail to realize how much of an impact a single sense brings to our life. This article reminded me of the importance of our senses. If your interested in this article visit the link pasted below 🙃🙃🙃.


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