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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鈥檚 Travel Editor, said the mice have noses 鈥渁s good as dogs鈥� but they are cheaper and 鈥渆asy to train鈥�.

As well as drugs and explosives, the mice can detect smuggled ivory and "large quantities of money鈥�.

This clip is originally from 5 live Breakfast on Sunday 14 June 2015.