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Smelling the light
Harvard University neurobiologists have created mice that can “smell” light, providing a new tool that could help researchers better understand the neural basis of olfaction. The work, described this...
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The nose knows
Harvard researchers have illuminated how the brain processes information about odor, linking a temporal pattern of electrical spikes traveling through the nervous system with specific smells and...
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‘Circuits of sense and sensibility’
Sometimes when we eat something that makes us sick, we lose our craving for that food forever. C. elegans feels our pain, and a Harvard biology professor has used that fact to map for the first time...
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Sniff mechanics
Harvard scientists are shedding light on a neural feedback mechanism that may play a key role in how the olfactory system works in the brain. The mechanism was first identified more than a century...
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Now available on the Web? Smells
Who hasn’t been transported back to childhood by the sweet aroma of baking cookies, or to a favorite forest by the earthy smell of leaf litter, or to a summer beach by the tang of salt air? Harvard...
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The premiere of the movie “Scent of Mystery” in 1960 marked a singular event in the annals of cinema: the first, and last, motion picture debut “in glorious Smell-O-Vision.” Hoping to wow moviegoers...
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