Olfactory disorders are common and affect about one-fifth of the general population. The
main causes of olfactory loss are post viral upper respiratory infection, nasal/sinus disease …

The biocatalytic production of flavor naturals that determine chemosensory percepts of foods
and beverages is an ever challenging target for academic and industrial research. Advances …

Olfactory systems must detect and discriminate amongst an enormous variety of odorants.
To contend with this challenge, diverse species have converged on a common strategy in …

Controlled experimental evolution during antibiotic treatment can help to explain the
processes leading to antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Recently, intermittent antibiotic …

Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (eg, vision) are more
accessible to consciousness and linguistic description than others (eg, smell)? The long …

Humans can discriminate several million different colors and almost half a million different
tones, but the number of discriminable olfactory stimuli remains unknown. The lay and …

It is still not possible to predict whether a given molecule will have a perceived odor or what
olfactory percept it will produce. We therefore organized the crowd-sourced DREAM …

Background Although draft genomes are available for most agronomically important plant
species, the majority are incomplete, highly fragmented, and often riddled with assembly …

Over the last 10 years advances in the new field of neuromarketing have yielded a host of
findings which defy common stereotypes about consumer behavior. Reason and emotions …

Although referred to in passing in several places, there have been few attempts to specify
the functions of the human olfactory system. This article presents an initial effort at identifying …