Neural mapping paints a haphazard picture of odour receptors

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 10:49 in Biology & Nature

Despite the striking aromatic differences between coffee, peppermint, and pine, a new mapping of the nose's neural circuitry suggests a haphazard patchwork where the receptors for such disparate scents are as likely as not to be neighbours...

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