Researchers are getting warm in their search for the details of cold detection. The discovery of a cold-sensitive ion channel will help dissect how the nervous system encodes and decodes the temperature spectrum.
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Zuker, C. A cool ion channel. Nature 416, 27–28 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/416027a
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