Feared and regarded as dirty, dangerous and diseased, if there is one creature that tops the list of people's most hated animal, it is the muchmaligned rat. Yet in Tanzania, scientists have trained rats to detect patients with tuberculosis, but what makes a rat's sense of smell so good?

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