scent

Scientists itch to decipher the cues that make some people mosquito magnets.

Researchers redefine the lost art of smelling illness using one woman’s exquisitely sensitive nose.

The odor prompted the animals’ fat cells to release lipids into circulation.

People with more carboxylic acids in their body odor are more attractive to mosquitoes, a study finds.

The findings likely have implications for animal research far beyond the study of antidepressants.

Neurons in mosquito antennae can express more than one olfactory receptor at a time, a redundancy that likely ensures they don’t lose a potential host’s scent.

Flavivirus infections alter the skin microbiome of mice to increase the production of a sweet-smelling compound that attracts the viruses’ insect vectors, a study finds.

Pairs of same-sex friends who reported strong connections when they first met had similar body odors, and body odor similarity predicted whether two strangers would hit it off.

A brain area of Aedes aegypti responds specifically to components of human sebum, a study finds.

Two studies this month point to pooches’ quick detection of SARS-CoV-2 on material that touched the skin of infected participants, although the pups’ accuracy does not match that of RT-PCR.

Over nearly 50 years, the Monell Chemical Senses Center chemist investigated a range of topics, from the smell of cancer to body odor’s effects on human physiology and behavior.

In a virtual reality experiment, participants recovered faster from a small electric shock when they could smell natural scents than when they could smell urban odors.

The brain wiring behind scent processing seems to scale across mammalian species.

Researchers teamed up with a woman with a keen sense of smell to identify telling differences between healthy people and those with the neurodegenerative disease.

The parasite changes people’s scent, primarily due to an increase in aldehydes.

Responses to compounds in human sweat may help explain why people with autism spectrum disorder tend to struggle with social cues.

GENETICS publishes a commentary criticizing a Nature Neuroscience paper claiming that mice can inherit smell sensitivities that their parents acquired during life.

The brain’s ability to properly store olfactory information can be disrupted by introducing new sensory stimulation during deep sleep, a mouse study finds.

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research