{"id":143726,"date":"2022-08-07T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/locusts-can-detect-cancer-in-humans"},"modified":"2022-08-07T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:22:18","slug":"locusts-can-detect-cancer-in-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/locusts-can-detect-cancer-in-humans","title":{"rendered":"Locusts can detect cancer in humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/locusts-can-detect-cancer-in-humans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/Earth.com\">Earth.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new study led by <a href=\"https:\/\/msu.edu\/\">Michigan State University<\/a> (MSU) has found that locusts can reliably detect through smell a variety of human <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/male-dogs-are-more-likely-to-develop-transmissible-cancer\/\">cancers<\/a>. The insects can not only \u201csmell\u201d the difference between healthy and cancerous cells, but they can also distinguish between different cancer cell lines. These findings could provide a basis for devices which use locust sensory neurons to enable the early detection of cancer by using only biomarkers in a patient\u2019s breath.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNoses are still state of the art,\u201d said study senior author Debajit Saha, an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering at MSU. \u201cThere\u2019s really nothing like them when it comes to gas sensing. People have been working on \u2018electronic noses\u2019 for more than 15 years, but they\u2019re still not close to achieving what biology can do seamlessly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cancer cells function differently from healthy ones, and create different chemical compounds as they grow. If these chemicals reach the lungs or airways \u2013 which happens in most types of cancer \u2013 they can be detected in exhaled breath. \u201cTheoretically, you could breathe into a device, and it would be able to detect and differentiate multiple cancer types and even which stage the disease is in. However, such a device isn\u2019t yet close to being used in a clinical setting,\u201d Professor Saha explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Earth.com A new study led by Michigan State University (MSU) has found that locusts can reliably detect through smell a variety of human cancers. The insects can not only \u201csmell\u201d the difference between healthy and cancerous cells, but they can also distinguish between different cancer cell lines. These findings could provide a basis for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}