Featured Media
MIT Technology Review: Scientists hacked a locust’s brain to sniff out human cancer [June 2022]
The Scientist: Scents and Sense-Abilities: Using Bug Brainpower to Smell Cancer [Dec 2022]
MSU Today: Sniffing out cancer with locust brains [Aug 2022]
WILX 10: Can a locust smell cancer? MSU researchers work to find out [Aug 2022]
MEDIA COVERAGE
- “Sniffing out cancer with locust brains” MSU Today, August 4, 2022
- “Scientists hacked a locust’s brain to sniff out human cancer” MIT Technology Review, June 21, 2022
- “Scientists program locusts to sniff out bombs, explosives” New York Post, Feb 18, 2020.
- “Bomb-Sniffing Cyborg Locusts Can Now Successfully Detect Explosives” Medium, Feb 13, 2020.
- “Locusts help uncover the mysteries of smell” NSF News, Aug 3, 2018.
- “Nanoparticle research tested in locusts focuses on new drug-delivery method” Science Daily, Apr 12, 2017.
- “What a locust’s nose taught WashU engineers about monkeys’ ears” Beth Miller, Record WashU, May 23, 2017.
- “Engineers to use cyborg insects as biorobotic sensing machines” Beth Miller, Record WashU, Jun 30, 2016.
- “Locusts provide insight into brain response to stimuli, senses” Beth Miller, Record WashU, Apr 27, 2015.
- “Swarming locusts shed light on how brain processes smells” Catherine Griffin, Science World Report, Nov 26, 2013.
- Science Daily, Featured research, Nov 25, 2013.
- “Pavlov’s locust: Insects trained to associate odor with food, leads to new insights in olfactory system” James Foley, Nature World News, Nov 26, 2013.