Odorants, mostly organic molecules that are released into the womb or in our atmospheric environment after birth, are detected by specialized olfactory receptor cells in the nasal cavity.

Biologist Prof. Dr. Tobias Ackels (40) from the University of Bonn will be awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter ...

To advance the understanding of olfaction, visualizing the binding of odorants to olfactory receptors remains a challenge. By resolving the structure of olfactory receptors, a Franco-American team ...

This valuable study tests a methodology for the discovery of new honey bee-repellent odorants via machine learning. The conclusions of the study are supported by solid evidence, with predicted ...

Olfaction in mammals is mediated by a population of olfactory sensory neurons, each of which expresses just one of ~1000 olfactory receptor proteins that are encoded in the genome. Olfactory activity ...

Early research had suggested that each neuron expresses just one type of receptor, and that all the neurons expressing a particular receptor link to a dedicated olfactory nerve cluster (called a ...

With just around 350 olfactory receptors, we can each smell a vast array of different individual molecules, called odorants (one model suggests there could be as many as 40 billion such smellable ...

Moving forward, the biologists hope to look into how much ants can adapt their olfactory receptors based on these interactions to see if the knowledge translates on an even deeper level.

Scientists have discovered that juvenile bottlenose dolphins have specialized receptors for detecting the fatty acids in ...