A new study published in Nature reveals how olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) achieve extraordinary precision in selecting ...

The bitter taste receptors we have on our tongues are also found in other organs, including the gut. A new study has ...

The touch crisis is a hidden epidemic affecting our mental and physical health. Learn why human contact is a vital biological ...

Birds, not humans The variant that was just one mutation away from binding to human receptors is now no longer in circulation. De Vries, Boons and colleagues, in collaboration with researchers at ...

Certain proteins found in the human brain have long been known to be critical to controlling how brain cells communicate with each other. So-called GABA A receptors are proteins that control the ...

"In terms of composition, the multi-receptor skin follows a single-electrode design ... for applications that require the fast processing of sensory data, such as autonomous vehicles and human-machine ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo published findings on a method of attaching artificial skin to robot faces to protect machinery and mimic human expressiveness. By Emily Schmall Engineers in ...

Electronic skin mimics the sensory functions of human skin Talking about the development ... The electronic skin “has a lot of tactile receptor cells that are densely arranged and have a ...

"Electronic skin is actually a new type of sensor that mimics the sensory functions of human skin ... signals is that it has a lot of tactile receptor cells that are densely arranged and have ...

If you bend your finger at the knuckle into an upside-down L, that’s what human sialic acid receptor looks like. Flu viruses tend to prefer to bind to one shape over the other, he said.

Study: The avian and human influenza A virus receptors sialic acid (SA)-α2,3 and SA-α2,6 are widely expressed in the bovine mammary gland. Image Credit: Arie van der Wulp / Shutterstock This ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Our skin endows us with a profoundly multifaceted sensory awareness unmatched in machines ... "Biomimetic Multimodal Receptors for Comprehensive Artificial Human Somatosensory ...