Tagged: smell

Can you smell that? A hunter gatherer can! - News

Jean Balchin • Jan 23, 2018 •

• odour,
• olfaction,
• sensory input,
• smell

Sniff, sniff. When it comes to naming particular colours, most people do so with ease. But for odours, it’s much harder to find the precise words. However, the Jahai people, a group of hunter-gatherers living in the Malay Peninsula are exceptions to this rule. An earlier study found that for the Jahai, odours are as simple to name as colours. Read More

Mice lacking a sense of smell stay thin - News

Jean Balchin • Jul 06, 2017 •

• adrenaline,
• Diet,
• fat-burning,
• mice,
• mouse,
• olfactory sensory neurons,
• olfactory system,
• smell,
• weight

Mice that have been engineered to lack a sense of smell lose weight on a high-fat diet, according to a report in today’s issue of Cell Metabolism. The mice ate just as much as counterparts with unaltered senses, yet lost an average of about 16 percent of their body weight. This weight loss was almost entirely from … Read More