Susan Soares projects all explore the idea of new organs of perception. During the project she discovered some research into the use of bees to detect explosives. They can be trained in minutes and can also detect hormones and other chemical traces produced by the human body when ill or at different stages of the fertility cycle.
One of the more striking proposals to come from her project was for an alternative means of diagnosis, less technical and invasive, but also less precise. Bees trained to detect a particular hormone would be placed in a specially designed glass container, the person breathes into a smaller open chamber within the larger one, if the bees detect the hormone they move into the smaller space indicating its presence.
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