Animals, including humans, rely on multiple senses to navigate their environments and make decisions. This integration of ...

Microbes that reside peaceably in the nasal passageways and on the skin can be harnessed for taking drugs to target cells.

in an individual’s olfactory epithelium. This process is mediated by differential rates of turnover (i.e., the rates of birth and survival) among the different neuron subtypes. The mechanisms by which ...

(A) UMAP visualization of 10,587 zebrafish olfactory epithelium cells. A total of nine cell types are color-coded based on major cell types. (B) Dot plot of markers delineating molecular cell types.

How Smells Work First, let’s see how we smell things. Smell is due to molecules of a particular substance that travel into your nose. These odor molecules contact a tissue called the olfactory ...

Olfaction operates through specialized proteins known as olfactory receptors ... embedded in the cell membranes of nasal epithelium in vertebrates, detect specific molecules in the environment.