Sentences with phrase «olfactory fingerprint»

The implications of this study reach beyond the sense of smell alone, and range from olfactory fingerprint - based early diagnosis of degenerative brain disorders to a non-invasive test for matching donor organs.

In research recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Weizmann Institute scientists report on a method of precisely characterizing an individual's sense of smell, which they call an «olfactory fingerprint.»

The olfactory fingerprint of the person in the middle remains consistent, even after 30 days (right), but is very different from that of another person (left).

They found, for example, that an immune antigen called HLA, today used to assess matches for organ donation, is correlated with certain olfactory fingerprints.

Not exact matches

Many volatile compounds can now be detected quite well by «electronic noses» that were inspired by the olfactory receptors of animals and provide characteristic chemical fingerprints for scents and mixtures of scents.

Now researchers report that by inserting ultra-fine electrodes into the brains of live mice, they have identified which neural cells in the accessory olfactory bulb fire when one mouse checks out another's pheromonal fingerprint.