Portuguese designer Susana Soares has created a series of glass diagnostic tools which use trained honey bees to detect if a patient has cancer. The “Bees” project draws inspiration from research indicating that “sniffer bees” can be trained to detect specific odors such as explosives, or in Soares’ case, cancer. We’ve previously seen a similar idea where researchers used sniffer dogs to detect lung cancer and help develop a cancer-detecting electronic nose. And although bees can only be trained to detect a single odor, research by Inscentinel suggests that their abilities are just as good, if not better than their canine competitors.
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