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Mice are being trained to detect would-be bombers and drug couriers at airports. Israeli scientists have created a detector which looks similar to a full-body scanner, but has three concealed cartridges inside containing specially trained mice. When the mice sense traces of drugs, they run to a side chamber where they trigger an alarm. Simon Calder, The Independent’s Travel Editor, said the mice have noses “as good as dogs” but they are cheaper and “easy to train”. As well as drugs and explosives, the mice can detect smuggled ivory and "large quantities of money”. This clip is originally from 5 live Breakfast on Sunday 14 June 2015.