Amazing new discoveries in fight against cancer, including cancer sniffing fruit flies!

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I kid you not!

Cancer-Sniffing Fruit Flies

In the past, we’ve reported on dogs who can alert doctors to the presence of bowel and lung cancer, but what about a much smaller animal? A team from the University of Konstanz in Germany recently discovered that fruit flies are able to smell five individual lines of breast cancer cells, and with a little tweaking, communicate their findings to human observers. “To create an indicator, Dr Galizia’s team developed a genetically mutated variant of the little guy, where its antennae would take on fluorescent properties if as little as a single molecule carrying the odor hit the fly’s receptors,” reports Dvice.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/glowing-fruit-flies-and-other-unusual-ways-to-fight-cancer.html#ixzz2taOejKgG

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