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Microbial communities on skin affect humans' attractiveness to mosquitoes

The microbes on your skin determine how attractive you are to mosquitoes, which may have important implications for malaria transmission and prevention, according to a study published Dec. 28 in the online journal PLoS ON ...

Biology / Other

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A good nose: Researchers decipher interaction of fragrances and olfactory receptors

Banana, mango or apricot - telling these smells apart is no problem for the human nose. How the olfactory organ distinguishes such similar smells has been uncovered by an interdisciplinary team of German researchers at the ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sniffing out a new source of stem cells

A team of researchers, led by Emmanuel Nivet, now at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, has generated data in mice that suggest that adult stem cells from immune system tissue in the smell-sensing region ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The nose knows: UF to help train experts in sniffing out oil spill-contaminated seafood

(PhysOrg.com) -- To keep consumers safe from seafood that could be tainted by the Gulf oil spill, regulatory officials will rely on an incredibly sophisticated, delicate tool: the human nose.

Chemistry / Other

created May 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Human nose too cold for bird flu, says new study

(PhysOrg.com) -- Avian influenza viruses do not thrive in humans because the temperature inside a person's nose is too low, according to research published today in the journal PLoS Pathogens. The authors of the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3