news tagged with: smell receptors en-us internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Scientists find distinctive patterns of olfactory receptors in fruit-eating bats How do we smell? The answer lies in the 1,000 or so genes that encode what's known as olfactory receptors inside our noses. Biology Tue, 04 Mar 2014 08:00:02 EDT news313140690 The smell of danger: Rodent olfaction and the chemistry of instinct The mechanics of instinctive behavior are mysterious. Even something as simple as the question of how a mouse can use its powerful sense of smell to detect and evade predators, including species it has never met before, has been almost totally unknown at the molecular level until now. Biology Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:24:45 EDT news228497072 Robot with frog egg smell sensor (w/ Video) ( -- Researchers from the University of Tokyo have invented a novel means of improving a robot's sense of smell, by using inexpensive olfactory sensors containing frog eggs. Chemistry Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:20:01 EDT news202027789 Darwin's finch and the evolution of smell Darwin's finches - some 14 related species of songbirds found on the Galapagos and Cocos Islands - will forever be enshrined in history for having planted the seeds of the theory of evolution through natural selection. Today, exactly 150 years after Darwin's famous book, finches can still teach us a lesson about evolution. A large, international group of researchers, among them Prof. Doron Lancet and Dr. Tsviya Olender of the Weizmann Institute's Molecular Genetics Department, recently produced the full genome of the zebra finch and analyzed it in detail. The report of the zebra finch genome, which appeared April 6 in Nature, is especially significant for what it reveals about the learning processes of language and speech. For Lancet and Olender, however, the findings have provided an interesting twist on the evolution of the sense of smell. Biology Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:40:05 EDT news189785430