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Pregnant mice block out unwelcome admirers to protect their pups
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Jul 20, 2008 |
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Mouse mothers-to-be have a remarkable way to protect their unborn pups. Because the smell of a strange male's urine can cause miscarriage and reactivate the ovulatory cycle, pregnant mice prevent the action of such olfactory ...
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Study on olfactory nerve cells shows why we smell better when we sniff
Mar 13, 2007 |
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Unlike most of our sensory systems that detect only one type of stimuli, our sense of smell works double duty, detecting both chemical and mechanical stimuli to improve how we smell, according to University ...
Steroids in female mouse urine light up nose nerves of male mice
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Jun 17, 2008 |
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A group of steroids found in female mouse urine goes straight to the male mouse's head, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. They found the compounds activate nerve cells in the ...
Do birds have a good sense of smell?
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Jul 16, 2008 |
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The sense of smell might indeed be as important to birds as it is to fish or even mammals. This is the main conclusion of a study by Silke Steiger (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology) and her colleagues. ...
University of Maryland researchers unlock mystery of a third olfactory system
Aug 29, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found a “nose within the nose,” a unique olfactory system within the noses of mice that is able to “smell” hormones involved in regulating water and salt balance ...
DNA sensors found to be an effective artificial nose
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Jan 23, 2008 |
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In designing artificial noses modeled after biological olfaction, the challenge has been to generate a similarly large sensor repertoire with the requisite combinatorial complexity to detect odors in the real world. A further ...
Researchers identify dominant chemical that attracts mosquitoes to humans
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have identified the dominant odor naturally produced in humans and birds that attracts the blood-feeding Culex mosquitoes, which transmit West Nile virus ...
Engineers pave way to 'artificial nose'
Sep 29, 2008 |
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MIT biological engineers have found a way to mass-produce smell receptors in the laboratory, an advance that paves the way for "artificial noses" to be created and used in a variety of settings.
Early scents really do get 'etched' in the brain
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Nov 05, 2009 |
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Common experience tells us that particular scents of childhood can leave quite an impression, for better or for worse. Now, researchers reporting the results of a brain imaging study online on November 5th ...
How the 100th protein structure solved at Diamond impacts our understanding of how insects smell
Sep 29, 2009 |
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New research announced today, Wednesday 30th September, by a team of leading scientists working with the UK's national Synchrotron, Diamond Light Source, could have a significant impact on the development ...
Pheromones identified that trigger aggression between male mice
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Dec 05, 2007 |
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A family of proteins commonly found in mouse urine is able to trigger fighting between male mice, a study in the Dec. 6, 2007, issue of Nature has found. The study, which is the first to identify protein pheromones respon ...
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