This woman can smell diseases — and she’s working with scientists to give you her superpower.

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Smartphones have camera “eyes,” microphone ears, speaker mouths — they even have gyroscopes to mimic our sense of balance and spatial awareness. But what can’t they do? Smell. But an MIT physicist is on a mission to change that.

In February 2021, MIT announced the creation of the “Nano-Nose.” As Freethink previously covered, the Nano-Nose was able to detect prostate cancer with accuracy comparable to a dog’s. The current Nano-Nose looks like a slightly chunky smartphone attachment, and is both biological and electronic.

The Nano-Nose contains living cells grown from the ones in our noses responsible for our sense of smell. When exposed to a scent, these receptors go up or down through an electrical current, drawing a picture of the scent. This is then analyzed by an AI, telling us what the Nano-Nose is detecting — technology inspired by what we know, and don’t know, about the nose.

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Read more of our stories on sense of smell:
Dogs that can smell coronavirus screen travelers at airport
►► https://www.freethink.com/heal....th/dogs-that-can-sme
‘Seeing’ the world through smell
►► https://www.freethink.com/social-change/smell-maps
MIT’s robotic nose can detect first sign of disease
►►https://www.freethink.com/tech....nology/mits-robotic-

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