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No two people will react to the same smell in the same way.
Selling through smelling.
New research offers insights into the brain after COVID-19 that may have implications for our understanding of long COVID-19 and how the disease affects our senses of taste and smell.
Understanding how the brain translates smells into behavior change can help advance search and rescue technology and treatments for neurological conditions.
The joint award recognizes the long road to deciphering the biology behind the brain’s ability to sense its surroundings – work that paves the way for a number of medical and biological breakthroughs.
Reduced brain volume in people who have experienced COVID-19 resembles brain changes typically seen in older adults. The implications of these findings are not yet clear.
Who’s a good doggie? Sniffer dogs might one day be able to screen people for COVID-19 in large crowds. But not when they’re hungry or need a good lie down.
Imagine not being able to smell gas or food that has gone off.
Dogs process the sensory world very differently than humans, but love in a way that is entirely familiar.
Brains recognize a smell based on which cells fire, in what order – the same way you recognize a song based on its pattern of notes. How much can you change the ‘tune’ and still know the smell?
Mmmmmmm. That smells delicious. Wait, how do you know that?
There is abundant evidence that a sudden loss of smell is related to COVID-19.
Smelling a romantic partner’s clothing is common behaviour, and research shows that it may improve sleep quality, and ease stress levels.
As we get older, the way we experience taste can change drastically – but it’s not all down to one sense.
Perhaps you’ve noticed something unusual in the bathroom after you consume this healthy spring vegetable. A Speed Read explains there’s two parts to the stinky puzzle: production and perception.
Elephants have the highest count of olfactory receptor genes of any species tested to date. This suggests that they may be the best smellers in the animal kingdom.
Our senses of taste and smell are linked to one another in ways that experts are continuing to explore. See if you can answer some questions for which experts have discovered some surprising answers.
A new study shows that anchovies – key food for larger fish – are attracted to plastic trash because it smells like food. This suggests that toxic substances in plastic could move up through food chains.
People with anosmia have no sense of smell, and there is no cure for the condition.
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Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida
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Professor of Rhinology and Olfactology, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
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Penn State
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Professor of Pervasive Computing, City, University of London
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Postdoctoral Research Fruit Flavor Biochemistry and Genetics, University of Florida
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Carla Rizzo Delray Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University
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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
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Research Scientist in Epidemiology, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
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Associate Professor, Flavour Chemistry, University of Reading
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Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Food Science and Technology, Cardiff Metropolitan University
