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Bart Weetjens: de cómo enseñé a las ratas a encontrar las minas terrestres olfateando.

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En TEDxRotterdam, Bart Weetjens habla de su extraordinario proyecto: entrenar a las ratas para encontrar con su olfato las minas terrestres. Muestra los clips de sus "ratas héroes" en acción, y anticipa la siguiente fase de su trabajo: enseñarles a revelar la tuberculosis en el laboratorio.

Bart Weet­jens is developing a new approach to the land ­mine detection problem: train­ing giant pouched rats to detect explosives in minute amounts. Full bio »

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