News tagged with odor
Early scents really do get 'etched' in the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A woman's nose knows body odor
Apr 07, 2009 |
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It may be wise to trust the female nose when it comes to body odor. According to new research from the Monell Center, it is more difficult to mask underarm odor when women are doing the smelling.
Taste, odor intervention improves cancer therapy
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Cancer and its therapies, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, may directly alter and damage taste and odor perception, possibly leading to patient malnutrition, and in severe cases, significant morbidity, according to ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kids connect alcohol odors with mom's emotions
Jun 25, 2008 |
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How children respond to the smell of alcoholic beverages is related to their mothers' reasons for drinking, according to a new study from the Monell Chemical Senses Center. When asked to choose between the odor of beer and ...
