According to mirror, locust brains send different chemical sensors when they smell cancer cells, which researchers could harness to create new detection machines.  All these machines would need is a sample of a patients' breath, which passes through a small device mimicking the locusts' sense of smell.

Michigan State University's biomedical engineering assistant professor, Debajit Saha, said: "Theoretically, you could breathe through a device, and it would be able to detect and differentiate multiple cancer types and even which stage the disease is in."

Scientists have been working on similar devices for more than 15 years, he added, but have so far come up short.  If they succeeded, it could have a huge impact on cancer survival rates across the world by speeding up detection times.  The researchers decided to try using locusts to detect cancer cells as they've been used by scientists for decades in similar experiments. Read this full article by clicking here.

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It might come as a surprise that this whole thing is even possible, but it shouldn't be. In March 2022, a YouTube channel called Freethink, posted a video of Joy, a lady who can smell diseases. Joy can detect cancer and Parkinson's all through her nose.  At the time we found the video, Joy was working with scientists, assiting them in finding a way to make it possible for everyone to detect diseases through their sense of smell. Read this article by clicking here.

However, the above isn't a first either. Cancer.or.au reported that studies over past decade had shown trained dogs could identify the urine of patients with bladder cancer almost three times more often than would be expected by chance alone, detecting lung cancer in exhaled breath samples with very high accuracy (in two separate studies) and identify ovarian and colorectal cancers by smelling breath samples.