News tagged with human sweat

New mosquito repellant could be frightening ... for the mosquitoes!

In a small, narrow, temperature-controlled lab room at Vanderbilt University live some of the most deadly and dangerous animals in the world.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

Bad news for mosquitoes: Study may lead to better traps, repellents

Yale University researchers have found more than two dozen scent receptors in malaria-transmitting mosquitoes that detect compounds in human sweat, a finding that may help scientists to develop new ways to combat a disease ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'Fear detector' being developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- British scientists are aiming to develop a device that can detect the smell of fear, and that could one day identify terrorists, drug smugglers, and other criminals.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 11 weblog

Chronically Sweaty Hands? Surgery May Help

Everyone sweats to some degree during exercise or other exerting activities. But for some people, profuse sweating is a constant that can quickly impact quality-of-life, according to University of Cincinnati ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Skin biology illuminates how stem cells operate

(PhysOrg.com) -- As a girl, Elaine Fuchs borrowed her mother’s old strainers and mixing bowls to collect polliwogs, an activity she credits for her present-day career as a biologist.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Women's brains recognize, encode smell of male sexual sweat

A new Rice University study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that socioemotional meanings, including sexual ones, are conveyed in human sweat.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1