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Mosquitoes can use their olfactory cells to smell liver cancer, Japanese research team finds – 7NEWS.com.au
Researchers have stumbled upon a new way to detect cancer in patients but it comes in an unlikely form – mosquitoes.
A Japanese research team has stumbled upon a cost-effective way to detect cancer in patients but it comes in an unlikely form – through mosquitoes.
The report outlined how its researchers had discovered how to use a mosquitos superior sense of smell to sniff out cancer in an unsuspecting human patient.
Led primarily by University of Tokyo Professor Shoji Takeuchi, the report was published in the US journal Science Advances on January 13.
How it works is a mosquito can use its olfactory cells – or…
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