University of Manchester scientists have overturned the 2,500-year-old theory that smell is detected by simple lock-and-key codes – using maggots with only one working olfactory sensory neuron (OSN), ...

CHAPEL HILL -- A scientific collaboration based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has broken new ground for future drug design and development for brain disorders such as Parkinson’s ...

For over a century, our sense of smell has been explained with the “lock and key” hypothesis, which holds that each odor molecule has a particular shape that allows it to fit into particular smell ...