The first-ever molecular images of an olfactory receptor at work answer decades-old questions about odor recognition. All senses must reckon with the richness of the world, but nothing matches the ...

All senses must reckon with the richness of the world, but nothing matches the challenge faced by the olfactory system that underlies our sense of smell. We need only three receptors in our eyes to ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Blood pressure drugs, like many medications in use today, often have 'off-target' effects because we don't yet understand exactly how they work. New research out of Duke, UCLA, ...

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The body has 25 types of functional bitter taste receptors, but tasting is not their only function. Research has shown these receptors also exist in the gastrointestinal tract and on the cells of ...

An olfactory receptor gene that aids in the sense of smell may also play a role in the metastasis of breast cancer to the brain, bones and lung, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) ...