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Bart Weetjens: Hoe ik ratten landmijnen leerde ruiken

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Op TEDxRotterdam, praat Bart Weetjens over zijn bijzonder project: ratten trainen in het ruiken van landmijnen. Hij toon clips van zijn "heldenratten" in actie, en geeft een vooruitblik op de volgende fase van zijn werk : ze leren om tuberculose in het lab op te sporen.

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 »

Translated into Dutch by Rik Delaet
Reviewed by Els De Keyser
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