An Amazing Storyrun By NPR Of A Chemist In Tanzania Who Is Training Rats To Sniff Out Patients Sputum

An amazing story run by NPR of a chemist in Tanzania who is training rats to sniff out patients’ sputum for positive TB strains. The rats can correctly pick out TB in samples 2/3 of the time and they can evaluate more samples in 10 minutes than a lab technician in one day! What a positive collaboration between two- and four-legged creatures! 

Read article here.

This Week in Science - April 29 - May 5, 2013:

Smallest movie ever made here.

Sea horse armor inspires engineers here.

New insect-eye-like-camera here.

Bioengineered windpipe here.

Bionic ear here.

Anti-matter falling up here.

Harvard robotocists fly RoboBee here.

Saturn’s seasonal magnetosphere here.

Vega launches here.

Climate change causing painted turtles extinction here.

Black hole birth observed for first time here.

New species of mole rat here.

Man, if Satan ever starts losing his hair there will be Hell toupée

Hey baby. If I woke up in your bed with a rubber duck and a spatula, would you let correlation imply causation?

No - correlation does not imply causation.

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It is necessary to engage in additional testing.

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