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Evil-doers everywhere: Get a whiff of this

The food you eat, the drugs you take, your state of mind, and your gender -- all these make your sweat unique. Tel Aviv University chemists may turn this fact into a new crime-fighting tool that would make Sherlock Holmes blink in amazement. Dr. Michael Gozin of Tel Aviv University's School of ...

Blunder Leaves Smoking Ban Up in Smoke in Stoke

...ust." Sue Wainwright, landlady at the White Lion, said her new smokers' corner in the beer garden was soon deserted as soon as customers got a whiff of the bungle. "I went outside to tell the lads. They all picked up their ashtrays and rushed back inside. Nearly 100 percent of them smoke," ...

Domestic Abuse Led Wife Killing Her Preacher Husband

...t him shortly after he allegedly tried to silence their crying infant daughter by suffocating her. She said all she said remembered was catching a whiff of gunpowder before she fled the room and returned to find her husband lying on the floor, bleeding from the nose and mouth. Winkler's emotional t...

Male Pheromones Build Brain Cells in Female Mice

...rs are not sure whether pheromones trigger neuron formation in humans or not. They say that it is still a matter of speculation whether a subconscious whiff of an alpha-male's urine could turn a woman's head. "Olfaction is a subtle and underappreciated sense. Maybe we've underestimated its importa...

When Smell Cells Fail They Call In Stem Cell Reserves

... to run directly from the brain to the outside world, olfactory cells are under constant assault from harsh chemicals that one might happen to catch a whiff of by accident, risking damage or death. To figure out how the olfactory system repairs severely damaged nerve cells, Reeds team exposed mouse...

UCLA Imaging Study Reveals How Pure Oxygen Harms the Brain

... of dangerous chemicals," said Macey. "Pure oxygen kindles the match that fuels a forest fire of harm to the body," said Harper. "But a little whiff of carbon dioxide makes it all go away." Based on their findings, the researchers strongly encourage healthcare providers to add carbon dioxi...

Busting the Exam Blues

...when you are unable to concentrate Learn to Relax ? In between study times go for a walk , to stretch your muscles and to get a whiff of fresh air ? Do not stack all the entertainments for post-exam days. Watch a rib- tickling movie or a comic show and enjoy the goodness of l...

A great hope for quitters of smoking by researchers

... As a whiff of fresh change and not tobacco comes a substitute by researchers. // According to a team led by the Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU) at The ...

Hot or cold: Chocolate milk is the answer for longetivity

... As a whiff of chocolate odour comes the news that a stroll followed by a glass of chocolate milk can do wonders for the musle function of an individual.// Thi...

A warning and wake up call: German cat infected with deadly bird flu strain.

... As a whiff of strong air comes the news that a cat that was found dead in Northern Germany was the carrier of the bird flu strain capable of infecting humans.// ...

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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 inve...

Wake up and smell the sweat

... Some people are oblivious to the odor in the locker room after a game, while others wrinkle their noses at the slightest whiff of sweat. Research by Prof. Doron Lancet and research student Idan Menashe of the Molecular Genetics Department, which appeared recently in PLoS Biolo...

Mice use specialized neurons to detect carbon dioxide in the air

...the atmosphere. To determine the threshold for carbon dioxide detection in the mouse, the Beijing team trained mice to lick water when they received a whiff of air with higher levels of carbon dioxide. As the amount of carbon dioxide in the whiffs of air was decreased, the accuracy of the animals' response...

When smell cells fail they call in stem cell reserves

... to run directly from the brain to the outside world, olfactory cells are under constant assault from harsh chemicals that one might happen to catch a whiff of by accident, risking damage or death. To figure out how the olfactory system repairs severely damaged nerve cells, Reed’s team exposed mouse ...

Ancient DNA provides clues to the evolution of social behavior

...colonial tuco-tuco fascinates biologists because it seems to defy all odds. This threatened species has so little genetic diversity that the slightest whiff of climate change or disease should have wiped it off the face of the earth long ago. Yet the hearty gopher-like creature has not only managed to surv...

Worms know bad food when they smell it

... For most people, just a whiff of food that has made them sick in the past is enough to trigger a wave of nausea ?and to prevent them from eating that food again. It's a response th...

Genpathway and Baylor College of Medicine Identify New Genes in Breast Cancer

... characteristic pattern of activity. It turns out that pattern is, perhaps unsurprisingly, unique from the pattern of brain activity associated with a whiff of skunk spray. The process of smelling an odor begins with odorant receptors that are located on the surface of nerve cells inside the nose. When ...

Decoding the logic of olfaction

... characteristic pattern of activity. It turns out that pattern is, perhaps unsurprisingly, unique from the pattern of brain activity associated with a whiff of skunk spray. The process of smelling an odor begins with odorant receptors that are located on the surface of nerve cells inside the nose. When ...

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Wardrivers now exploiting your wireless service with ease

...ke Outmesguine (who owns a technical services company) ventured off to sniff out wireless networks between Los Angeles and San Francisco. He got a big whiff of insecurity. While his 800-mile drive confirmed that the number of wireless networks is growing explosively, he also found that only a third use...

Customers, clients and partners, oh my!

...elationship type probably isn't the one you want to choose if you're trying something new inside your organization. It will inevitably have at least a whiff of You'll take what we give you and like it! Clients Clients, like customers, come in the aggregate for viable businesses. Unlike customers, h...

IT leadership is not just for CIOs anymore

...tioners may as well have dressed in capes and pointy hats with stars and moons on them. What we did was a mystery to the rest of the company and had a whiff of magic. Then like a magic trick gone bad, there was a huge puff of smoke on Wall Street and voila! We were standing in our underwear for all the w...

Keep your tech employees happy

...available technology person to do sales work, tech support or work on some IT issue. After all, the technical person is technical, so if theres any whiff of information technology in the request, it seems reasonable to ask any old techie to pinch hit. I disagree. In a tiny start-up, people expect to ...

Branding smells

...oduct or a service. Like the smell of bread in a hot oven at the bakery to be used by a sandwich maker, or the smell of Gouda cheese and the notorious whiff of dirty socks, to be exclusively used by a shoe maker. Ridiculous attempts So here it is. This is what happened to the most recent aggressive...