A small number of Toll-like receptors can detect a broad range of human pathogens, as well as a variety of other molecules that indicate tissue damage, by a process called pattern recognition.

However, the receptors had one restriction: they could only recognize molecules that were on the surface of other cells. The system relied on the tight physical interactions between cells.

Cornell researchers have identified a specific brain circuit that could lead to anxiety treatments without cognitive side ...

When it brings its tongue back in, the molecules contact special receptors and the snake senses the molecules as a smell. A fly tastes with its feet. At the end of a fly’s legs is a foot-like ...

Engineered immune cells called CAR-T cells are used in the treatment of cancer. Researchers from Uppsala University have now ...

The main component of common cuttlefish ink — melanin — strongly sticks to shark smell sensors, possibly explaining why the predators avoid ink.

Olfactive Biosolutions, the leader in adapting food molecules to treat chronic diseases, was recently granted U.S. patent US 12,186,299 dated Jan. 7, 2025, Compositions And Methods For Treating ...

The patent specifically relates to oral formulations of natural food molecules for treating diabetes mellitus and obesity by modulating ectopic olfactory, taste and related receptor activity.