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Individual olfactory sensory neurons express only one of more than a thousand different odorant receptors, suggesting that DNA rearrangement may be involved. Based on a clever new technical approach, two groups now conclude that this is not the case.

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Figure 1: Models for regulating gene expression in the immune and olfactory systems.
Figure 2: Different mouse-cloning strategies.

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