but they found that newborn mice injected with IFT88 were better at suckling and feeding — both associated with smell. ORPK mice are usually one-quarter the size of normal mice by three weeks of ...

Smell and touch are the earliest sensations ... a closer look at the effect of olfactory stimuli on the brains of newborn mice. To do this, the researchers delivered a pleasant odor to the ...

Newborn mice need to learn the smell of their moms' natural perfume to suckle and survive, according to new research. Previous studies on rabbits suggested that for mammal babies, a mom's ...

Using gene therapy, scientists have successfully restored the sense of smell in mice that had a genetic mutation that took away their olfactory senses. Smell disorders or olfactory dysfunction ...

Here we show that global and sensory neuron-specific ablation of the mechanically activated ion channel Piezo2 causes respiratory distress and death in newborn mice. Optogenetic activation of ...

Newborn female mice that sniff odours from ... We have known since the 1970s that getting young female mice to smell older females’ urine causes them to reach puberty later.

The baby mice never met their father, but those sired by a blossom-hating dad had more acetophenone smell receptors. Compared to pups born of other dads, most were also agitated when acetophenone ...

Scientists investigating what keeps lungs from overinflating can quit holding their breath. Experiments in mice have identified a protein that senses when the lungs are full of air. This protein ...

And apparently, it’s when baby mice can learn not to run from the smell of cats. It probably helped that Voznessenskaya and her team fed the mice milk while exposing them to the cat urine smell.

Not too long ago, I talked about a neuroscientist who had used technology right out of Star Trek to restore sight to blind mice. Scientists have now been able to restore the sense of smell to mice ...

Mice engineered to lack a sense of smell lose weight on a high-fat diet, researchers report July 5th in the journal Cell Metabolism. The mice ate just as much as counterparts with unaltered senses ...