LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Researchers at Michigan State University have discovered that honeybees can use their highly sensitive sense of smell to detect chemicals associated with lung cancer in human breath—with enough precision to tell the difference between types of lung cancer cells.
Debajit Saha, an assistant professor in MSU’s College of Engineering, and his team created two synthetic breath mixtures—one designed to mimic the chemical makeup of a healthy human breath and one designed to mimic the breath of someone with lung cancer.