You may already be familiar with the fact that bees can be trained to find explosives, drugs, and military chemicals?
Now one British student, Susana Soares, is looking into how bees’ exceptional sniffing abilities might help humans in other ways. The possibilities might include training bees to detect a pregnancy or diagnose a disease condition, simply through the scent of a person’s breath.
Bees have a phenomenal odour perception. They can be trained within minutes using Pavlov’s reflex to target a specific odour and their range of detection includes pheromones, toxins and disease diagnosis.
Soares is a second year student at the Royal College of Art, ” the world’s only wholly postgraduate university institution of art and design – fine art, applied art, design, communications and humanities.” Her interest is in the benefits to be derived from integrating human science and design with elements of the natural world.
See also:
Active Monitoring, Conditioning of Bees to Find Chemicals and Devices
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