We all have a better sense of smell than we give ourselves credit for.
"Temperatures as low as -3C have affected the sniffer dogs' sense of smell, " it added.
When it disappeared he realized his sense of smell had disappeared, too, a relatively uncommon effect.
One symptom can be a lifetime without a sense of smell, called congenital anosmia.
Just as eyesight and hearing fade with age, so too does the sense of smell, experts say.
Not that he smelled bad, but that his sense of smell was as acute as a canine's.
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One of the mysteries of biology is, believe it or not, how the sense of smell works.
He said the mice were then able to use their sense of smell to seek out food.
However, he said training our sense of smell was only likely to be helpful in its long-term preservation.
They discovered something that for many years had remained a big mystery: How does the sense of smell work?
The refined cocktails incorporate traditional spirits, fresh-squeezed juices and aromatics, such as rose water, to stimulate your sense of smell.
Upper respiratory infections, pollution, head trauma and diseases including diabetes all have the potential to compromise our sense of smell.
The good news: There are exercises you can do at home to protect and even sharpen your sense of smell.
If we could emulate the sense of smell of a shark or a dog, they have such exquisite senses of smell.
The Sense of Smell Institute found that lavender increases the amount of time spent in the restful, restorative phase of sleep.
This effectively dulled their sense of smell: the rats could not tell one smell from the other, even for a reward.
Until then, there are simple at-home exercises that perfumers and other professional "smellers" recommend to keep the sense of smell in shape.
He conducted his own research, studying the sense of smell in goldfish.
Touch can be affected by arthritis and other physically impairing diseases as your sense of smell by sinus infections, medications, as well as allergies.
When taste buds become dry, they also become less receptive and your sense of smell is blunted, making subtle flavours nearly impossible to detect.
Gene therapy has been used to give mice born without a sense of smell the ability to sniff their surroundings, an international team of researchers say.
Sinusitis describes a range of unpleasant and sometimes debilitating symptoms that include nasal and sinus inflammation, congestion, cough, runny nose, difficulty breathing, and a reduced sense of smell.
Dr Buck was awarded the physiology or medicine prize, along with Richard Axel of Columbia University in New York, for their work in investigating the sense of smell.
With time, neuroscience research uncovered two parts of the brain that evidence neurogenesis: the hippocampus, associated with memory formation, and the olfactory bulb, associated with the sense of smell.
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While many animals communicate using their sense of smell, it has long been assumed that humans lack this ability because we do not have the olfactory sensitivity of dogs for example.
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Investors of Matrixx Initiatives, a pharmaceutical company, sued the business because it did not disclose to shareholders that its over-the-counter drug, Zicam Cold Remedy, caused a loss of sense of smell.
The court heard he could not smell it due to his poor sense of smell and his English was not good enough to understand the writing on the bottle, which he thought was cleaning soap for the floor.
Even though one of the walls of the Madison Avenue store is hung with photographs of famous perfumers he's worked with the same way a restaurant or deli might display 8-by-10 autographed glossies of movie stars he counts only one man who actually possessed a supernatural sense of smell.
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