Olfaction: Scents and sensibility

Olfaction: Scents and sensibility

Expression of a receptor protein has, for the first time, been definitively correlated with sensitivity to a particular odorant. This receptor, expressed in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, appears to be distinct from the putative vertebrate odorant receptors.

Olfaction: It Makes a World of Scents

Mutations in odorant receptor genes predict olfactory perception of common compounds in foods and flowers. Through recombination they can generate extensive combinatorial variation in sensory ability among individuals.

Scents and Sensibility: Towards a Molecular Logic of Perception

Gerald Fischbach: Richard Axel is a University professor at Columbia and was, seems to me, born and educated at Columbia, has been an extraordinary influence not just in neuroscience but I think in American biomedical science. He had a career in molecular biology—and still does—that has enormous influence over the way we think about genes and gene expression, and it is the infusion of new talen...

Scents and sensibility: a molecular logic of olfactory perception (Nobel lecture).

AROMA: Ambient awaReness through Olfaction in a Messaging Application Does Olfactory Notification Make ’Scents’?

This work explores the properties of different output modalities as notification mechanisms in the context of messaging. In particular, the olfactory (smell) modality is introduced as a potential alternative to visual and auditory modalities for providing messaging notifications. An experiment was performed to compare these modalities as secondary display mechanisms used to deliver notification...