Your nose is a vital organ that plays a central role in bodily functions like breathing and smelling. However, there are additional functions that your nose participates in. Likewise, there are a few ...

The delicate tissues that line our nasal passages form a barrier between the environment and our brain. However, current mouse brain dissection techniques usually toss aside this tissue, even though ...

People are estimated to be able to discriminate between anywhere from 10,000 to more than one trillion different smells. In the early 1990s, our understanding of how that can be possible took a big ...

A team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has invented an artificial olfactory system that mimics the mammalian nose to assess the freshness of meat ...

For the first time, researchers have determined how a human olfactory receptor captures an airborne scent molecule, the pivotal chemical event that triggers our sense of smell. Whether it evokes roses ...

Using a newly devised, three-dimensional model to study the regeneration of nerve tissue in the nose, researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a part of the National Institutes of Health, have identified a specific, front-line defense that limits the ...