Honey bees may be able to detect cancer

A U.K research firm Inscentinel, have said that they have  trained  honey bees to detect certain early-stage cancers in humans.Honeybees are known for their exquisitely sensitive sense of smell.Portuguese designer Susana Soares invented a glass device with two enclosures: a small chamber in which the patient breathes into and a larger chamber where trained bees are kept.The bees are trained by exposing them to smell and then feeding them sugar, so they associate the odor with a food .According t...