One of the studies commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature and conducted by the University of Newcastle states that ...

As I went past 70, I realised I could easily forget the coffee I had on the stove brewing; and that more easily when Parkinson’s disease took away my olfactory senses, I could no longer smell my ...

They can find their food by using their olfactory glands. Most other birds use their amazing vision to find food. Wild birds will visit the feeders in your yard, especially during the months when ...

When musk was originally used in perfumery, it came from the sex glands of the Tibetan musk deer ... Citrus notes, spices, heady florals and vanilla make this a more-is-more musk; the olfactory ...

Is it dementia? A popular neurologist uses five simple tests of cognitive function to help gauge the health of a patient's ...

The human olfactory system discriminates between thousands of odors by interacting specifically with olfactory receptors on sensory neurons. Each receptor can detect several odorants at different ...

During the development of the olfactory epithelium (OE), olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) express only one member of the odorant receptor (OR) gene family, and O ...

The researchers also examined the effects of exocrine gland-secreting peptide 1 (ESP1), a pheromone known to enhance female sexual receptivity, in both wild-type female mice (with functional ...