Honey bees have a much better sense of smell than fruit flies or mosquitoes, but a much worse sense of taste, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Honey bees ...

Campylobacter jejuni is now recognized as the leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in humans throughout the world, representing a considerable drain on economic and public resources 1,2. The ...

Using state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques, researchers have for the first time visualized and described the precise arrangement of chemoreceptors -- the receptors that sense and respond to ...

IN my first lecture I shall deal with chemoreceptors — that is, the nervous structures that control the lungs according to the chemical composition of the blood. Their discovery by Heymans and ...

Researchers from the University of Missouri are studying potential therapies to target specific cells linked to the development of cardiovascular and metabolic disorders like high blood pressure and ...