News tagged with underarm odor
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.
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Earwax tied to genes, underarm odor
Jan 30, 2006 |
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Japanese researchers say the type of wax in a person's ear is determined by genetics.
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 ...
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.
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, ...
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 ...
Strong Odor Flips a Neural Switch Between Attraction and Aversion
May 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Even the most alluring scent can turn repellant when the smell is too strong, but how that switch between attraction and aversion gets flipped in the brain was unknown.
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, ...
Neural mapping paints a haphazard picture of odor receptors
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Despite the striking aromatic differences between coffee, peppermint, and pine, a new mapping of the nose's neural circuitry suggests a haphazard patchwork where the receptors for such disparate scents are as likely as not ...
Sniffing out danger
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Each human nose encounters hundreds of thousands of scents in its daily travels perched front and center on our face. Some of these smells are nearly identical, so how do we learn to tell the critical ones apart?
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 ...
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