Researchers have uncovered novel aspects of astrocyte function in olfactory, or smell, perception revealing changes in their gene expression patterns that turn these brain cells into a hub of ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118, No. 42 (October 19, 2021), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) Determining the valence of an odor to guide rapid ...

image: A pioneering investigation developed by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) alongside the University of Sussex and University College London, shows that olfactory stimuli combined with ...

Once a scent is detected, different areas of the brain are activated. A team has recently discovered that structures of the olfactory sense work closely together with the brain's reward and aversion ...

A brain with a normal olfactory bulb on the left and a brain lacking the bulb on the right. Weizmann Institute of Science The way we perceive the world around us is super complex, but researchers seem ...

I was on a panel a few weeks ago and realized I forgot to turn off the oven. Utterly mortified, I told my Zoom attendees that I had to save my lasagna that was likely burning into a smoky crisp. One ...

Through what they claim is the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) of olfactory genes, researchers in Iceland have identified genetic variants that affect how people perceive the strength and ...