When I was in graduate school, I once gassed out my lab with the smell of death. I was studying the products of plant decomposition, and I had placed copious quantities of duckweed into large tubs and ...

What gives rotting flesh its unmistakable stench? In this short explainer we look at cadaverine a breakdown product of proteins and how bacteria turn everyday building blocks into some of the most ...

Putrescine and cadaverine, the two most frighteningly named of all chemicals, lurk in our mouths all day, every day. This simple fact emerged in 2003 when Professor Michael Cooke, of the centre for ...

Warning: Cadaverine is absolutely putrid and it taints everything that it comes into contact with. It also does not wash off too easily. This video was more of a proof of concept than an actual ...

Strong odors are an indicator that food has gone bad, but there could soon be a new way to sniff foul smells earlier on. As reported in ACS Nano, researchers have developed a bioelectronic “nose” that ...

Organic chemists are mostly deranged – and that's on a good day. Because simply learning how to name the chemicals they work with is tough stuff. But every so often we'll see a name – or two – that ...

A team has found a smell receptor in zebrafish that explains their aversion to rotting flesh. Like zebra fish, humans are also disgusted by the smell of cadaverine, a volatile foul smelling molecule ...

Cadaverine (1,5-pentanediamine) is essential for producing polyamides with excellent thermal stability and mechanical strength, finding applications in engineering plastics and high-performance fibers ...

A Nebraska-based chemist claims she can create 'Eau De Death' that mimics the smell of rotting human flesh, by mixing a combination of three compounds namely putrescine, cadaverine and Methanethiol. A ...