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...s study is telling us that the presence of alcohol odor is capable of supporting some type of conditioning...ennella believes this study speaks to the power of odor associations. "Odors are often thought to provide us with the best memory cues," she said. "Some ......tennules to learn how these crustacean noses pluck odor molecules from the water swirling around them. These half-dozen UC Berkeley professors in the Department of Integrative Biology comprise the largest and most diverse group in the country studying how animals -- including humans -- move. What has emer...UI biologist receives grant to study acoustic management of swine odor
...ost current methods to control these gases involve odor masking agents or simply covering storage facilities to reduce gas emission," Soll says. "The grant will fund research to identify and put into use an environmentally safe and economical solution. The research will utilize acoustic technology, which...Parents' escape drinking evokes children's negative response to alcohol smell
...astic squeeze bottles, each of which contained the odor of beer, bubble gum, sour milk (pyridine), or a neutral odor (mineral oil). The researchers delivered gentle puffs of air from the squeeze bottles into the child......principle ingredient in mothballs and the familiar odor in millions of closets filled with winter's woolens. It is also used as a restroom deodorizer. The rat study found clear evidence that naphthalene causes cancer, a finding that scientists and regulators must wrestle with to determine if, as co......nged worm. In mice and humans, each of millions of odor sensing nerves has only one type of odor detecting receptor, allowing the brain to distinguish between odors by tracking which nerve did the ...New hope for neurodegenerative disease sufferers
...ic shock task measures whether a fly remembers the odor associated with the shock, while the courtship task looks at how males remember being rejected by females. "We have studied one type of 14-3-3 genes, and shown that when we turn it on, flies recover their learning abilities," says Skoulakis. "We w...Scientists switch memory recall on and off in fruit flies
...lly and their colleagues trained flies to avoid an odor and later tested the flies' recall by exposing them to the same odor and measuring their avoidance response. The scientists discovered that the flies' ability to recall ......d, CT) The science of smell: how the nose senses odor - The olfactory system determines how we perceive...culminating in the detection and recognition of an odor by the brain. An independent chemical sensor, the vomeronasal organ, also functions to modulate sexu...American Chemical Society meeting features cutting-edge research August 26-30 in Chicago
... in catnip that gives the plant its characteristic odor is about ten times more effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET, the compound used in most commercial insect repellants, researchers have found. ( AGRO 73, Monday, August 27, 9 a.m.) Congressman Danny Davis speaks at minority affairs lunche...Researchers discover precise olfactory map
...re detected in the nose by roughly 1,000 different odor receptors. Understanding how signals from those re...ed in higher regions of the brain to yield diverse odor perceptions has been a longstanding goal for researchers. Now, researchers have taken a step toward ...Assaulting the mosquitos sense of smell
...wn that mosquitoes are primarily attracted by body odor and other emissions such as carbon dioxide. We all... a cloud of chemicals and mosquitoes can track the odor trail that we leave for quite a distance, says Zwiebel. Many of these chemical cues are created by t...Scientists study how the lobster's nose knows
...rs must make a confusing tangle - each filament of odor intertwining with the others until discovering the...hly detailed information about the structure of an odor plume, antennule flicking may allow the lobster to track down its source despite the plume`s patchin...Lobster sniffing: how lobsters' hairy noses capture smells from the sea
...obot builders looking for efficient ways to create odor sensors. "If you want to build unmanned vehicles o...eley. "We are learning how animal antennae capture odor molecules from the water around them. We want to understand which designs of odor-catching antennae ...Fatty food triggers taste buds, new research finds
...o be a flavor carrier that could deliver taste and odor compounds derived from different parts of food, an...rely smelling it. "Our initial hypothesis was that odor was responsible," he says. Previous studies by Mattes had shown that blood fat levels were changed i......rs extraordinary ability to sniff out all kinds of odor trails in the water is just what the Navy would li... in a tank and used fluorescent dye to simulate an odor plume. They illuminated the plume with a thin sheet of laser light to see just the slice of the plum...Johns Hopkins scientists find brain's nose plug
...t lets us stop smelling something, even though the odor is still there. "The ability to desensitize to od...at a protein called CNGA4 helps plug the "nose" of odor receptor cells -- neurons whose job is to detect smells and send that information to the brain as an...University of Southern Mississippi to ship first batch of Pentagon paint
...And we can make these coating systems that have no odor and release no pollutants into the atmosphere." Despite its environmentally friendly makeup, the paint has shown a consistently high quality in lab tests, including government testing as a precursor to environmental certification and U.S. Defen...Scientists enhance fruit fly memory using mouse protein: New clue to fundamental brain mechanism
... a particular odor. The method involves pairing an odor with a mild electric shock, training the flies to avoid the odor, and subsequently measuring the flies's ability to remember to avoid the odor. Depending on the training regimen, fly memories based on this type of "associative" learning (made famous ......ial scent glands, hoping to learn from the complex odor bouquet who is family and who's not. More remarkab... it had detected a less-related or totally foreign odor compound -- in keeping with a well-established standard in olfactory behavior studies. A quick snif...