News tagged with odor molecules
Resilin springs simplify the control of crustacean limb movements
May 29, 2009 |
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Animals can simplify the brain control of their limb movements by moving a joint with just one muscle that operates against a spring made of the almost perfect elastic substance called resilin. This principle is analysed ...
Brain encodes complex plumes of odors with a simple code
Feb 25, 2009 |
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In the real world, odors don't happen one puff at a time. Animals move through, and subsequently distort, plumes of odor molecules that constantly drift, changing direction as the wind disperses them. Now, ...
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Frog embryos associate the smell of predators with danger
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study in the US and Canada has found that frogs can learn to associate the smell of predators with danger, even as embryos.
Odor ID not disguised by diet
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Oct 31, 2008 |
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Reporting in the October 31 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE, scientists from the Monell Center present behavioral and chemical findings to reveal that an individual's underlying odor signature remains detectable even i ...
Scientists Discover An Ancient Odor-Detecting Mechanism in Insects
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1913 Theodore Roosevelt added cartographer to his resume when he and his crew ventured up an unspeakably dangerous and uncharted tributary named the River of Doubt. Now, on a charting expedition ...
Scientists produce the first smell map
May 27, 2008 |
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Is the smell of almonds closer to that of roses or bananas? Weizmann Institute scientists have now answered that question (roses) by showing for the first time that smells can be mapped and the relative distance between various ...
The smell of iron
Oct 18, 2006 |
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Where does the strange but typical "metallic" smell come from when we touch iron objects such as tools, utensils, railings, or coins? "The smell of iron upon contact with skin is ironically a type of human body odor," states ...
Growth hormone found to have new role in development of brain's smell center
Mar 26, 2008 |
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A human hormone known to stimulate the growth of cells throughout the body has a new role - helping to set up the proper nerve connections in the odor center of the brain, according to University of California, ...
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 ...
Knocking nanoparticles off the socks
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Scientists in Switzerland are reporting results of one of the first studies on the release of silver nanoparticles from laundering those anti-odor, anti-bacterial socks now on the market. Their findings, scheduled ...
Scientists give flies false memories
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 15, 2009 |
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By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a report in the October 16th issue of the journal Cell.
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 ...
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