Isoamyl acetate came from scientists in the 1800s playing around with carbon based molecules in the lab. And if you've ever taken an organic chemistry class, maybe you've made it too.

Artificial banana flavor — isoamyl acetate — may not taste like the real thing, but it absolutely has a fan base. Luismicss fotografia / 500px/500Px Plus/Getty Images.

To test out the male mice's reaction to isoamyl acetate and bananas, the team used supermarket banana oil. They also measured the mice's stress hormones in their blood, as well as pain inhibition.

Isoamyl acetate, also referred to as banana oil, is a naturally occurring compound in fruit and other consumables, like alcoholic beverages. The myth of banana flavoring coming from the Gros ...

To make a formaldehyde detector, the researchers used Escherichia coli engineered with a genetic circuit that converts isoamyl alcohol into banana-scented isoamyl acetate in the presence of as ...