Thursday, March 6, 2008
Bees, Another Diagnostic Modality
Filed under: Art
Susana Soares, a Portuguese artist, is proposing a way to utilize the amazing chemical sensing of the bees to diagnose diseases. By training groups of bees to fly into specific caverns within a space after sensing a particular smell, it seems theoretically possible to use the animals as honest to goodness medgadgets.
More from the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) exhibit...
(hat tip: Gizmodo)
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