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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute?
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2 .What do turkeys have to do with toxin detection?
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3 .No, they can't sniff out poison.
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4 .But scientists have been inspired by the birds' special skin.
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5 .You see, turkeys can change their skin color.
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6 .When they get excited, their blood vessels swell, changing the spacing between connective tissues.
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7 .The new spacing scatters light differently, making turkey skin shift from a red color to blue or white.
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8 .To imitate this function, researchers created sensors made of bundles of viruses known as bacteriophages.
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9 .Like the tissues in turkey skin, the virus bundles can expand or contract, changing the color pattern of the sensor.
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10 .Because bacteriophages respond differently to different substances, they make unique color patterns when exposed to organic compounds like hexane or methanol.
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11 .The work is in the journal Nature Communications.
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12 .A potential smartphone app could spot changes in a sensor's color to identify different compounds and their concentrations.
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13 .The sensors can even be made to detect dangerous substances such as TNT.
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14 .Something you would not want to gobble, gobble, gobble.
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15 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick.
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