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Biology: Zoology Environmental: General
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How insects track odors by navigating microscale winds - How Insects Navigate Microscale Winds to Track Odors      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Insects use odor plumes -- which travel like smoke and form when the wind blows odor molecules from ...

Biology: Evolutionary Ecology: Research Offbeat: Plants and Animals
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Geckos know their own odor - Geckos Know Their Own Odor: A Fascinating Insight into the World of Lizards      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Geckos can use their tongue to differentiate their own odor from that of other members of their spec ...

Biology: Biochemistry Biology: Microbiology
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Odor-causing bacteria in armpits targeted using bacteriophage-derived lysin      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A research team has synthesized a lysin that during in vitro experiments targets bacteria responsibl...

Biology: Biochemistry Biology: General Offbeat: General Offbeat: Plants and Animals
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Detecting odors on the edge: Researchers decipher how insects smell more with less      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

While humans feature a sophisticated sense of smell, insects have a much more basic olfactory system...

Biology: Biochemistry Biology: Biotechnology Biology: General Biology: Zoology
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Odors are encoded in rings in the brain of migratory locusts      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers describe how odors are encoded in the antennal lobe, the olfactory center in the brain o ...

Chemistry: General Chemistry: Inorganic Chemistry
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A step closer to digitizing the sense of smell: Model describes odors better than human panelists      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A main crux of neuroscience is learning how our senses translate light into sight, sound into hearin...

Biology: Biochemistry Ecology: Animals
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When a rat smells a rat - When a Rat Smells a Rat: Understanding the Sense of Smell in Rodents      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Some animals release chemical pheromones which can trigger behavioral or hormonal changes in other a...

Biology: Biochemistry Biology: Cell Biology Biology: Developmental Biology: General Biology: Microbiology Biology: Molecular
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Do smells prime our gut to fight off infection?      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

In nematodes and humans, mitochondrial stress in the nervous system initiates a whole-body response...

Biology: Biochemistry Biology: Cell Biology
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Muscaris grapes: Molecular secret of lychee note revealed      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers have succeeded in identifying the odorants responsible for the characteristic lychee not ...

Biology: Biochemistry
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Studying how serotonin alters locust's sense of smell      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers study the role of serotonin in altering odor driven behavioral and neural responses in l ...

Biology: Biochemistry Biology: Biotechnology Biology: General Biology: Microbiology Ecology: Animals Geoscience: Geochemistry
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More than meows: How bacteria help cats communicate      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Many mammals, from domestic cats and dogs to giant pandas, use scent to communicate with each other....

Offbeat: General Offbeat: Plants and Animals
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Smell of human stress affects dogs' emotions leading them to make more pessimistic choices      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Dogs experience emotional contagion from the smell of human stress, leading them to make more 'pessi...

Biology: Cell Biology Biology: General
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How fruit flies smell carbon dioxide      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Mosquitoes in search of blood as well as fruit flies looking for a place to lay their eggs navigate...