Smell in sentence

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We've done things looking at how their olfaction, or their sensory system for smell works, how they identify different people, and other dogs in their household by smell.

One of the things that we found is that this reward system, the same part of the brain activates when the dogs smell a familiar human, even if the human is not there.

There is a man, he is dying in his bed in his home (Laughter) and he smells, coming from the kitchen, the most sublime smell.

It's the smell of his favorite chocolate chip cookies.

So they engineered these cells so that when they're growing in the exponential phase, they would smell like wintergreen.

And when they stopped growing they would smell like bananas.

We're going to reprogram the bacteria in your gut, and we're going to make your poo smell like peppermint." (Laughter) So, you may think that's sort of really crazy, but there are some pretty amazing things that are happening that make this possible.

And, by the way, a recent study shows that mothers prefer the smell of the dirty diapers of their own baby.

Even trained food assessors, and that's people who have been explicitly taught to disentangle the sense of smell and the sense of taste, may still be biased to evaluate products sweeter if they contain vanilla.

So taste and smell and other sensory information is inextricably entangled in our conscious mind.

For example, we know that there are those five basic tastes, but we strongly suspect that there are more, and in fact, using our EEG setup, we found evidence that fat, besides being sensed by its texture and smell, is also tasted.

And in fact, I want you to really smell the person who's sitting next to you.

Lean in, get your nose right into their armpit, come on, stop being so British about it, get your nose into the armpit, have a good old sniff, see what you can smell.

Throughout history, there have been many examples of diseases being associated with a smell.

So, for example, typhoid apparently smells like baked brown bread, and that's quite a nice smell, isn't it, but it starts to get a little bit worse.

So it's no surprise, then, that smell and body odor gets a bit of bad reputation.

If I was to say to you, "You smell," now, you're going to take that not exactly as a compliment, are you.

But you do smell.

What if we could actually think about smell in a positive way, put it to good use?

Now animals are built to smell.

But mosquitoes are able to do that because they have a highly sophisticated sense of smell, and they're able to see through all the, sort of, odor sludge to find you, that individual, and bite you as a blood meal.

Now when it comes to mosquitoes and olfaction, their sense of smell, it's very complex.

Well, smell is the same.

But what this does is it allows us to measure the electrical response of the smell receptors in the antennae, and so we can see what a mosquito is smelling.

So now we know what the smell of malaria is, and we've used the mosquito as a biosensor to tell us what the smell of malaria actually is.

Now dogs have an incredible sense of smell, but there's something more special about them: they have an ability to learn.

So we wanted to know, could we actually train dogs to learn the smell of malaria?

This could completely revolutionize the way that we track the spread of diseases, the way that we target our control efforts and respond to disease outbreaks, ultimately helping to lead to the eradication of malaria, and even beyond malaria, for other diseases that we already know have a smell.

In the spring, I'd smell the heady fragrance of lilacs.

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