A new study out of France shows that ants can be trained to differentiate between healthy and cancerous cells using their advanced sense of smell.
The study attempted to find a non-invasive, inexpensive, and accurate way to do cancer screenings.
And we may have been literally stepping on the answer all this time.
Insects, such as ants, have a refined sense of smell and can be rapidly trained. We show that individual ants need only a few training trials to learn, memorize, and reliably detect the odor of human cancer cells.
In the past, research has been done using dogs to detect cancer cells, but the time and cost needed to train the dogs made it an unrealistic solution. Ants, however, can be trained very quickly. Considering the average lifespan of an ant is less than a year, I'm sure they mature much quicker than dogs.
I guess the Bible knew what it was talking about when it said that ants are unusually wise (Proverbs 30:24-25).
In addition to being able to detect between healthy and cancerous cells, they could also distinguish between two different cancerous cell lines.
The authors of the study concluded,
Our findings suggest that using ants as living tools to detect biomarkers of human cancer is feasible, fast, and less laborious than using other animals.
How's that for some actual science??
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