A Nobel for Smell

A Nobel for Smell

Nobel citation makes clear, Buck and Axel not only and Molecular Pharmacology solved the mystery of the olfactory receptors but, in a University of California, San Francisco remarkable series of subsequent experiments, outlined San Francisco, California 94143 the basic organizational principles of the vertebrate ol2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute factory system. More generally, the discovery o...

Unraveling the sense of smell (Nobel lecture).

I was born in 1947 in Seattle, Washington, a city surrounded by mountains, forests, and the sea. My mother was the daughter of Swedish immigrants who had come to the US in the late nineteenth century while my father s family had Irish roots on one side and ancestors extending back to the American Revolution on the other. I was the second of three children, all girls. My mother was a homemaker w...

Love at first smell--the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Evaluation of Culturally-Familiar Odorants for a Persian Smell Identification Test

Introduction: Processing odor information by the olfactory system depends greatly on the odor concentration. In order to use an odorant in a smell identification test (SIT), the minimum identification concentration (MIC) needs to be determined.  Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in 60 healthy native individuals aged 20 to 60 years, selected from patients’ companions in a tertiary...

A Nobel Hybrid Approach for Edge Detection

The objective of this paper is to present the hybrid approach for edge detection. Under this technique, edge detection is performed in two phase. In first phase, Canny Algorithm is applied for image smoothing and in second phase neural network is to detecting actual edges. Neural network is a wonderful tool for edge detection. As it is a non-linear network with built-in thresholding capability....