Scientists have, for the first time, tracked nasal insulin traveling into the brain—revealing why it may work differently in ...

A dog’s nose contains over 220 million olfactory receptor sites. And although it's unknown precisely how many are in a whitetail's nose, the current best guess of several hundred million puts these ...

Snot plays a powerful role in protecting us from disease – and its colour alone can provide insights into what's going on in ...

(CNN) — Your nose may be more powerful than you think. In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can distinguish odors within a fraction of a second, working at a level of sensitivity that is “on ...

thanks to an invention that models itself after the human nose. The 'bioinspired super-adhesive filter' has been tested by Korean researchers, and it's essentially an oil-coated mesh that more ...

Trained dogs can detect Parkinson’s disease from skin swabs with up to 98% accuracy - years before symptoms appear, a new study shows.

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

For the new study, Heilbronner and his colleagues investigated 94 strains from 11 bacteria genera that occur in the human nose. Their focus was on a very specific characteristic of the microbes.

NASA has been funded by the Department of Health and Human Services with $3.8 million to enhance the E-Nose device developed at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley using ...