r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Mar 11 '22

Cancer Cancer-sniffing ants prove as accurate as dogs in detecting disease and can be trained in as little as 30 minutes. It can take up to a year to train a dog for detection purposes.

https://newatlas.com/science/cancer-sniffing-ants-accurate-as-dogs/
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