Scientists find volatile compounds in ear wax may help detect Parkinson's disease earlier than traditional methods, offering ...

The consistency of a given person’s ear wax directly indicates how sweaty they are as a human being. Mind blown. I’m nervously perspiring in the light of this newfound knowledge.

There are two forms of human ear wax, wet and dry. Wet ear wax is common in whites and African Americans, dry ear wax is common in Asians and native Americans. Both types of wax are produced by the ...

The wax that gets secreted in your ears is strange stuff. Is it there to kill bugs? What’s it even made of? BBC Future takes a peek. Whales never clean out their ears. Year after year their ...

So, Hao Dong, Danhua Zhu and colleagues wanted to focus their PD screening efforts on ear wax, which mostly consists of sebum and is easily sampled. To identify potential VOCs related to PD in ear wax ...

Ear wax, or cerumen to give it its medical name, comes in two types – wet and dry.. Sorry to say, but if you’re one of those people with the wet type – usually sticky and yellow or brownish ...

Ear mites are a type of mite that lives in the ear canal and feeds off skin oils and ear wax. They’re commonly found in animals. However, they may jump from pets onto humans and bite them. Share ...

To identify potential VOCs related to PD in ear wax, the researchers swabbed the ear canals of 209 human subjects (108 of whom were diagnosed with PD).