News tagged with odor profile
First detection of 'odor profile' for skin cancer may lead to rapid, non-invasive diagnostic test
Aug 20, 2008 |
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Chemists today described the first identification of a specific "odor profile" for skin cancer, a discovery that could form the basis of a rapid, non-invasive test for diagnosing the most common type of cancer in the United ...
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New insights into the 'smell of death' could help recover bodies in disasters and solve crimes
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Aug 17, 2009 |
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In an advance toward the first portable device for detecting human bodies buried in disasters and at crime scenes, scientists today report early results from a project to establish the chemical fingerprint ...
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.
Researchers discover scent of skin cancer
Aug 20, 2008 |
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According to new research from the Monell Center, odors from skin can be used to identify basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer. The findings, presented at the 236th meeting of the American Chemical Society, ...
Tracking down the human 'odorprint'
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Each of the 6.7 billion people on Earth has a signature body odor -- the chemical counterpart to fingerprints -- and scientists are tracking down those odiferous arches, loops, and whorls in the "human odorprint" for purposes ...
Twitter launches tool for nailing spammers
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Twitter added a tool that lets users flag accounts of spammers at the globally-popular microblogging service.
Birds with a nose for a difference
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Avoidance of inbreeding is evident amongst humans, and has been demonstrated in some shorebirds, mice and sand lizards. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology now report that it also occurs ...
This idea doesn't stink: New tech cuts industrial odors, pollutants
Aug 26, 2009 |
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A North Carolina State University researcher has devised a new technology that really does not stink. In fact, it could be the key to eliminating foul odors and air pollutants emitted by industrial chicken rendering facilities ...
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 ...
Facebook to keep profiles of the dead
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Death doesn't erase the online footprints that people leave in life and Facebook won't either, though it will make some changes.
Social memory in Drosophila
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Positive social interactions exist within Drosophila: when in a group, Drosophila flies have better memory than when they are isolated. Thomas Preat's team at the Laboratoire de Neurobiologie (CNRS, France) ...
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