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Nature 428, 362-364 (25 March 2004) | doi:10.1038/428362a
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Neuroscience: The sweet smell of success
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- Carina Dennis is Nature's Australasian correspondent.
Abstract
Smell is arguably the most evocative and mysterious of our senses. But thanks to advances in our understanding of the cells that detect odour, its secrets should now start to be revealed. Carina Dennis sniffs around.
Lawrence Katz likes to start his lectures to medical students by opening a vial containing the pig version of the pheromone androstenone, used by boars to attract their mates. Katz, a neuroscientist at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, can't smell it himself.
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