Bees Used to Detect Disease, Monitor Fertility Cycles

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Bees Used to Detect Disease, Monitor Fertility Cycles

 

 

 

A Crystal Ball for Telling the Present, Not the Future

 

Kathleen Hom, The Washington Post, 10/21/2008

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Blowing into a glass bubble that holds buzzing bees sounds a little

kooky. But according to Portuguese artist Susana Soares, doing so could

help detect disease and monitor fertility cycles…Last year, Soares

began working with bees trained to detect pheromones and toxins specific

to skin and lung cancer, diabetes and tuberculosis…