The study also found that the risk from losing smell was similar to that of carrying the APOE-e4 gene, which is a well-known ...

Leon and his colleagues aimed to investigate whether olfactory loss could be more than a symptom, potentially serving as an early warning sign or even a contributing factor to the development of ...

Would you give up your sense of smell to keep your hair? What about your phone? A 2022 US study compared smell to other senses (sight and hearing) and personally prized commodities (including money, a ...

Olfaction is one of the most elusive of the human senses. It sustains life by enabling several critical functions, such as our ability to locate and select food, our choice of mates, influencing ...

Loss of smell (and so taste more on that later) is a common symptom. Prof Carl Philpott, an academic surgeon and professor of rhinology and olfactology at the University of East Anglia ...

In a study published today (July 21) in Nature, researchers determined that after a bacterial infection in the gut, glial cells and neurons in the fly brain communicate in a way that tamps down ...

Losing the ability to smell properly can significantly impact quality of life. It can hinder essential daily functions and heighten health risks. We often associate this loss of sense of smell ...