as small as a world and as large as alone

9:23am January 28, 2012

staceythinx:

Susana Soares’s design work is as fascinating as the science behind it:

Scientific research has demonstrated that bees have an extraordinarily acute sense of smell and can be trained to perform health checks by detecting a specific odour in peoples’ breath.

The project consists in a series of alternative diagnostic tools that use bees to diagnose accurately at an early stage of a vast variety of diseases.

Could this revolutionise medicine as we know it?

Wow that looks almost like a model Klein bottle I have hanging from my ceiling. Also, I’m not too surprised. I knew by smell when a staff person’s cancer came back (before she or anyone else noticed), and even humans with sensitive noses are nothing compared to some other animals. I just hope the bees aren’t treated badly in the process.

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