Detecting Tuberculosis: No Microscopes, Just Rats

Monday, January 3, 2011 - 20:20 in Biology & Nature

Researchers say that the Gambian pouched rat can smell the difference between tuberculosis bacilli and other germs that inhabit human phlegm.

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