Individuals who lost their sense of smell due to conditions such as trauma and old age could soon have access to a new type of therapy, which will make use of genetic triggers to force the nose to renew its smell sensors. The technique is detailed in the December 8 issue of the scientific journal Neuron.
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9 December 2011
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While modern-day celebrities have made a point out of altering the shape and size of their nose for purely aesthetic reasons, or for conforming with the demands of working in Hollywood, people living in the Middle Ages did so for entirely different reasons, such as actually fixing someone's face. A recently-anal... |
28 December 2010
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In one of the most interesting conclusions ever to be derived from a scientific study, researchers learned recently that bacteria, microorganisms that exist virtually anywhere on the planet, have a sense of smell.This is a very interesting discovery, considering that fact that some of the worst smells you can name mo... |
17 August 2010
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In addition to being men's best friends, dogs are also gifted by nature with a sense of smell that is at least a thousand times more keen than our own. This ability they have is being used in a wide array of applications, raging from detecting drugs to testing food for poison or finding victims buried under the ... |
10 December 2009
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For over 60 years, researchers have wondered why the nose of the Bourret's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus paradoxolophus) is so abnormally large for the animal's size. In a new scientific study that saw the participation of Virginia Tech faculty members, it was proven that the bat actually developed its nose no... |
8 July 2009
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It's not common for technologies developed for space travel to find other applications in the field of medicine, of all places. Nevertheless, an artificial electronic nose, developed for the Endeavor space shuttle, in a bid to help the craft monitor air quality, proved to be extremely useful for neurosurgeons an... |
30 April 2009
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As any bomb squad technician will tell you, the reason why sometimes even the best dogs and equipments cannot detect a bomb is the fact that the explosive device leaves only trace amounts of smell molecules in the air that are too faint for conventional detection methods to pinpoint. But researchers at the Tel Aviv U... |
31 March 2009
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