Neuroscience
Study shows that mice can identify specific odors amid complex olfactory environments
For many animals, making sense of the clutter of sensory stimuli is often a matter or literal life or death.
Aug 3, 2014
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Neuroscience
Finding the target: How timing is critical in establishing an olfactory wiring map
The human nose expresses nearly 400 odorant receptors, which allow us to distinguish a large number of scents. In mice the number of odor receptors is closer to 1000. Each olfactory neuron displays only a single type of receptor ...
Apr 10, 2014
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Neuroscience
Wiring for smell sets up early, then persists
To accommodate a lifetime of scents and aromas, mammals have hundreds of genes that each produce a different odorant receptor. The complex and diverse olfactory system they build remains adaptable, but a new study in the ...
Apr 10, 2014
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Neuroscience
Researchers find a lobster's sense of smell may hold the key to better electronic sensors
(Medical Xpress)—Could lobsters help protect soldiers someday? A team of University of Florida researchers says they might.
Mar 18, 2014
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Neuroscience
Research reveals first glimpse of brain circuit that helps experience to shape perception
Odors have a way of connecting us with moments buried deep in our past. Maybe it is a whiff of your grandmother's perfume that transports you back decades. With that single breath, you are suddenly in her living room, listening ...
Mar 2, 2014
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Neuroscience
Brain mechanism connecting sense of smell with appetite discovered
In a state of hunger or fasting, the increase in food intake that takes place after smelling food is linked to a type 1 cannabinoid receptor in the olfactory bulb, according to a study co-led by a UPV/EHU researcher and published ...
Feb 10, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers detect cancer cells using olfactory senses of fruit flies
(Medical Xpress)—A research unit in an international cooperation project, led by the Konstanz-based neurobiologist and zoologist Professor Dr. Giovanni Galizia, has been the first to demonstrate that fruit flies are able ...
Jan 27, 2014
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Neuroscience
Study: How likes, dislikes from sniffing are encoded in the brain
For most animals, the scent of rotting meat is powerfully repulsive. But for others, such as carrion-feeding vultures and insects, it's a scent that can be just as powerfully attractive.
Jan 16, 2014
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Neuroscience
Extensive variability in olfactory receptors influences human odor perception
According to Gertrude Stein, "A rose is a rose is a rose," but new research indicates that might not be the case when it comes to the rose's scent. Researchers from the Monell Center and collaborating institutions have found ...
Dec 8, 2013
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Neuroscience
The bitter and the sweet: Fruit flies reveal a new interaction between the two
Fruit flies have a lot to teach us about the complexity of food. Like these tiny little creatures, most animals are attracted to sugar but are deterred from eating it when bitter compounds are added.
Aug 21, 2013
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