Osmo, an olfactory technology company that has digitized the sense of smell to make fragrances with the assistance of ...

COURTESY OF ANDREW WU Zhao's research on the olfactory system has revealed the role of histones in olfactory stem cell division and differentiation. Imagine the delicious smell of a family’s favorite ...

Mice make use of rapid nerve cell interactions in the brain's smell center to distinguish one odor from another, a new study shows. Both mice and humans can rapidly identify odors, researchers say, in ...

Katie Boateng was eating breakfast when she realized something was wrong. Her roommate, in a cleaning fervor, was spraying bleach around the kitchen, but Katie couldn’t smell a thing. She started ...

Olfactory dysfunction in MS may be linked to nasal microbial changes, not just central inflammation. MS patients showed lower olfactory test scores and distinct nasal microbiome differences compared ...

A novel bilateral compensatory mechanism important for the activity of olfactory glomeruli in Xenopus tropicalis tadpoles was uncovered.

I am not normally a fan of lotions and potions, but right now, four small vials sit on my bedside table. Every morning and every night, I open and sniff each one in turn, savouring the scents as they ...

As humans age, particularly after middle age, their brain functions, cognitive abilities and memory can deteriorate to varying degrees. Aging-related disorders marked by cognitive decline, ...

Searching for new ways to help my senior patients improve and maintain cognitive functions, I came across an interesting research study from the University of California Irvine (Woo, C. et al. 2023) ...