This year's Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine have solved this problem and in a series of pioneering studies clarified how our olfactory system works. The sense of smell long remained the ...

Buck shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with HHMI ... and their previous work on the organization of the olfactory system. Whenever you inhale the aroma of vanilla, the neurons ...

Cattle rely heavily on their sense of smell, and understanding their odor preferences could help improve handling, health, ...

"Very little is known about its physiology even if we use our sense of smell every second of every day. We grasped its importance when it suddenly captured our attention during the COVID-19 ...

In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can distinguish odors within ... a professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU Langone Health in New York, wrote in an editorial ...

How would you react if you got that call from Stockholm? Linda Buck, a neuroscientist from Seattle, fumbled her phone in the dark and accidentally hung up. It was 2.30 in the morning, mind you.