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Wound monitor 'sniffs out' infections

The University of Manchester has received £1m (?.67m) to develop a new device able to 'sniff out' harmful infections. The aim is to produce a device which is able to detect harmful bacteria in the air, which may signal the first signs of infection. When...

Parasitic plants sniff out hosts

Parasitic plants do not haphazardly flail about looking for a host but sense volatile chemicals produced by other plants and identify potential hosts by their emissions, according to a team of Penn State chemical ecologists. "We are interested in how plants respond to their environment, and have looked at plant insect interactions," says Dr. Consuelo M. De Moraes, assistant professor of en...

Penn study on olfactory nerve cells shows why we smell better when we sniff

Unlike most of our sensory systems that detect only one type of stimuli, our sense of smell works double duty, detecting both chemical and mechanical stimuli to improve how we smell, according to University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers in the March issue of Nature Neuroscience. This finding, plus the fact that both types of stimuli produce reaction in olfactory nerve cel...

Get a whiff of this: Smell test could sniff out serious health problems

A new medical device in development by University of Cincinnati researchers may sniff out olfactory disorders that could be an early warning of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other problems outside the typical sensory loss associated with aging. The Sniff Magnitude Test (SMT), an invention of UC Psychology Professor Robert Frank and Professor Emeritus Robert Gesteland of the UC Depa...
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Sniff out flatulence

Scientists think they have discovered the Holy Grail of bad smells - a product that could wipe out the lingering effects of flatulence. American researchers believe the answer to the age-old embarrassment could be charcoal. Their research revealed// that an object called a Toot Trapper, a cushion covered in activated charcoal, reduced the smell of flatulence to almost unnoticeable levels....

Sniff to compatibility

Researchers have ascertained that women sniff out men whose body odour is similar to that of their fathers. The theory implies// that a man who smells similar to a woman's father is likely to have a compatible immune system. The natural odours that all humans produce are called pheromones. They are influenced to a degree by a cluster of genes related to the immune system called the Maj...

Detection of Neurological Disorder is Just a Sniff Away!!

Simple sniff tests will now help detection of Neurological disorders in their early stage or even the chances of developing any of them//. Melbourne researchers have found a relationship between identification of various smells such as coffee, whisky, roses and bleach and neurological disorders such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Scientific di...

Human Sniff as Good as That of a Dog’

Humans could develop amazing skills of tracking down objects by practicing detection of different smells.// In an article published recently in Nature it is claimed that by continuous practice a person can help improve their sense of smell. In time it helps the individual to track and locate objects faster and more accurately. Researchers suggested that this was due to the humans poss...
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