Scientists Map Precise Striped Pattern of Smell Receptors in Mouse Nose

For generations, the sense of smell stood apart from its sensory siblings — vision, hearing, and touch — each of which had yielded their neural maps to science, while olfaction remained stubbornly opaque. Now, researchers at Harvard Medical School have peered into the nasal architecture of more than 300 mice and discovered not disorder, but elegant horizontal stripes of smell receptors organized with the same spatial logic found in the brain itself. The key to this hidden order, it turns out, is retinoic acid — a molecular gradient that quietly instructs each neuron where to belong during deve

◉

Education 1498 artigos relacionados

Ver todos 1498 →

Tópico: Education Ler fonte original ↗

Fale Conosco FAQ

Scientists Map Precise Striped Pattern of Smell Receptors in Mouse Nose

Cobertura Relacionada

Receba o Register no seu e-mail