Smell receptor linked to prostate cancer progression
Blocking the olfactory receptor with drugs or scents might be a new prostate cancer treatment, say Duke researchers: Frontiers in Oncology [...]
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Fruity with a note of fungus: How fungal infections change the aroma of wine
A recent study, published in Frontiers in Chemistry, examines how fungal infections affect the aroma of wine reveals they do in fact change the aroma of wine. [...]
There’s more to attraction than what meets the eye
Voice and scent play an underappreciated role in understanding attractiveness.
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Can you smell through your lungs?
by Liam Drew, Frontiers Science Writer It was always thought that olfactory receptors’ sole bodily function was to smell, and could only be found inside a nose. But now a [...]
Witnesses can identify criminals by smell
Human nose-witnesses identify criminals in a lineup of body odor By Alice Rolandini Jensen, Frontiers science writer Move over sniffer dogs, people who witnessed a crime are [...]