MIT engineers mass-produce smell receptors in lab
Monday, September 29, 2008 - 16:28
in Biology & Nature
MIT biological engineers have found a way to mass-produce smell receptors in the laboratory, an advance that paves the way for "artificial noses" to be created and used to detect drugs and explosives and to understand the molecular basis of smell.
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