Innate immunity

Following Olfactory Cues to Detect the Activation of Innate Immune Responses

Following Olfactory Cues to Detect the Activation of Innate Immune Responses

Thanks to their keen sense of smell, African giant pouched rats can be trained to detect landmines and tuberculosis. Two weeks ago, Maarten Boersema reported in The Scientist that “It takes about nine months to fully train a tuberculosis-detection rat. But once trained, the rat can screen thousands of patients every month.” Rats are not the only disease-sniffing […]