Medical research

Researcher working on ways to restore a lost sense of smell

Take a moment to appreciate your sense of smell. It helps you savor everything you eat, from fresh-baked cookies to just-picked strawberries. It alerts you to spoiled food, natural gas leaks, and fires. And yet, it's likely ...

Medical research

Intranasal stem cell therapy restores smell in mice

A stem cell therapy delivered into the nose can restore the sense of smell in a mouse model of olfactory loss. The findings, published May 30 in the journal Stem Cell Reports, provide proof of principle for an approach that ...

Medical research

Why the sense of smell declines in old age

As mammals age, their sense of smell deteriorates. In a study published in the journal Cell Reports, an interdisciplinary research team at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University Medical Centre Mainz investigated why ...

Medical research

When the nose doesn't know: Can loss of smell be repaired?

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine, led by Dr. James E. Schwob, are examining the behavior of adult stem cells within the context of aging and, specifically, the sense of smell. As part of the normal aging ...

Neuroscience

Inflammation required for olfactory tissue regeneration

In a mouse study designed to understand how chronic inflammation in sinusitis damages the sense of smell, scientists at Johns Hopkins say they were surprised to learn that the regeneration of olfactory tissue requires some ...

Neuroscience

Distant brain regions selectively recruit stem cells

Stem cells persist in the adult mammalian brain and generate new neurons throughout life. A research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel reports in the current issue of Science that long-distance brain connections ...

Neuroscience

When neurons are 'born' impacts olfactory behavior in mice

New research from North Carolina State University shows that neurons generated at different life stages in mice can impact aspects of their olfactory sense and behavior. The work could have implications for our understanding ...

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