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 “NanoNose.” As Freethink previously covered, the NanoNose was able to detect prostate cancer with accuracy comparable to a dog’s. The current NanoNose looks like a slightly chunky smartphone attachment, and is both biological and electronic.

The NanoNose 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 NanoNose is detecting — technology inspired by what we know, and don’t know, about the nose.

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‘Seeing’ the world through smell
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MIT’s robotic nose can detect first sign of disease
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