Moore and Stephen R Robinson You know that feeling you get when you take a breath of fresh air in nature? There may be more ...

In an intriguing development, new research suggests that humans need not rely solely on food for nutrition, as they also ...

We can absorb nutrients from the air we breathe! Why haven’t we heard about this until now? Here's what researchers are ...

Aeronutrients enter our body by being absorbed through networks of tiny blood vessels in the nose, lungs, olfactory epithelium (the area where smell is detected) and the oropharynx (the back of ...

A patch of skin on the roof of our nasal cavity is chock-full of olfactory sensory neurons – between 12 and 20 million of them. Photo / Getty Images Our friend Andrew holds the glass to his left ...

The olfactory system is the sensory system that is responsible for the sense of smell (olfaction). It receives, processes and interprets odour information. The microanatomy of the axonal ...

The olfactory bulb is the part of the central nervous system that receives olfactory information from the olfactory receptor neurons and relays the information to subcortical and cortical areas of ...

This important study partially fills the gap in the knowledge of olfaction at the level of the Anterior Olfactory Nucleus (AON) and Piriform Cortex with functional magnetic resonance imaging, ...

The study found that HSV-1 initially infected the nose, especially the olfactory epithelium (the smell-sensing tissue) and respiratory tissue. The virus spreads from these areas to specific brain ...