Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Do you smell what I smell?

A new study sheds light on understanding the extensive individual differences in how we sense odors. By showing that small changes in a single olfactory receptor gene can affect how strong and pleasant a person finds an odor, the findings expand understanding of how olfactory receptors in the nose encode information about the properties of odors even before that information reaches the brain.

from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2V5qKo4

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