In a study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, a team of French researchers at the University of Sorbonne Paris North demonstrated that ants have the ...

Human patients would be less homogenous, which could influence their body odors and make it harder for ants to sniff out cancer. “The diet, sex and age of a patient can impact the odor of the ...

Ants don’t have a nose, but that doesn’t stop them from sniffing out cancer. Thanks to an abundance of olfactory receptors on their antennae, the insects have an incredible sense of smell ...

What's more, their study finds that the ants' meandering may make their search more efficient than a pure random search would. That's because ants tend to cross their own paths less frequently ...

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Jan. 25, 2023 -- New research points to the possibility that ants will someday help diagnose cancer in human beings. The insects have a highly refined sense of smell they use in all aspects of ...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and early diagnosis is key for successful treatment A recent animal study has shown that ants can smell cancer from the urine of cancerous ...

“There’s these perfectly cleaned pathways that the ants make and maintain, and they carry bright-green leaves,” Chalmers told me recently. “And so you saw this ribbon, almost like a drawin ...

Ants can detect the scent of cancer in urine, scientists have found. Several types of cancer have been found to alter urine smell but experts have, for the first time, found ants to have this ...

Ants can be trained to detect cancer in urine, a new study finds. Although ant sniffing is a long way from being used as a diagnostic tool in humans, the results are encouraging, the researchers ...

Ants have an excellent sense of smell. And cancerous tumors in animals, including humans, produce chemical compounds that can make their way into urine samples. Some research has demonstrated that ...

What's more, their study finds that the ants' meandering may make their search more efficient than a pure random search would. That's because ants tend to cross their own paths less frequently ...