Detailed maps of smell receptors in the nose overturn textbook models of olfactory receptor organization in mice.

The way that the sense of smell works is that olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) are wired up to olfactory receptors (ORs) in ...

Using spatial transcriptomics and single-cell sequencing, researchers mapped out gene expression patterns in the neurons of ...

The sprawling network of the visual cortex reigned supreme in the field of sensory processing, contributing significantly to our understanding of sensory perception. In contrast, the study of ...

The delicate tissues that line our nasal passages form a barrier between the environment and our brain. However, current mouse brain dissection techniques usually toss aside this tissue, even though ...

The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies ...

A research team has, for the first time, identified at the cellular level why the olfactory system is the first to be damaged in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (dementia). The paper is ...

Our olfactory system, which originated millions of years ago, evolved to detect small changes in the chemical composition of ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have discovered that pheromones essential for mating behavior in mice are recognized by the nose and not by the vomeronasal system, as researchers had long ...