A massive DNA study reveals how genes shape your sense of smell and offers new clues about brain health and Alzheimer's risk.

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A dog’s nose contains over 220 million olfactory receptor sites. And although it's unknown precisely how many are in a whitetail's nose, the current best guess of several hundred million puts these ...

Humans can be trained to identify the eggs of the invasive spotted lanternfly. But it’s not easy. The mottled gray color of ...

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The exact pattern and location of whiskers varies with breed, but most cats have 12 whiskers that are arranged in four rows ...

Specially trained K-9s are leading the fight against cybercrimes, helping police departments find small electronic storage ...

Topics covered include rising food allergies in children, the psychological burden of chronic allergic diseases, predictors ...

Mouse olfactory organoids revealed stem cells that preserve smell, offering clues to treat age- and disease-related smell ...

Microglia, a type of brain immune cell, can gobble up amyloid beta protein, which clumps together into toxic aggregates ...

Scientists at UCSF have uncovered how certain immune cells in the brain, called microglia, can effectively digest toxic ...

Hidden in the lungs of some breast cancer survivors are tumour cells that can remain dormant for decades — until they one day ...