Brainy bird: Pigeons uncommonly good at distinguishing cancerous from normal breast tissue
Monday, November 23, 2015 - 11:30
in Health & Medicine
If pigeons went to medical school and specialized in pathology or radiology, they’d be pretty good at distinguishing between digitized microscope slides and mammograms of normal and cancerous breast tissue, according to a new study from the University of Iowa and the University of California, Davis. With some training and selective food reinforcement, pigeons performed as well as humans […]