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...research, published in today's issue of Cell magazine, was conducted by Linda Buck, an associate professor of neurobiology at HMS, and postdoctoral fellow Bettina Malnic. Junzo Hirono and Takaaki Sato, colleagues in Japan, also worked on the study...
...Buck, who has been studying the sense of smell for 10 years, has discovered that each scenting cell, or neuron, has only one type of receptor. Each receptor type is found on about 5,000 neurons in a human nose, she said...
...neurons of each type are scattered throughout the nose, but they send messages that converge on distinct spots in the olfactory bulb at the front of the brain, Buck said. "What is most remark-able is that the locations of convergence are identical in different animals...
From the olfactory bulb, information flows to the olfactory cortex and then to other parts of the brain where the information is processed, Buck said...
...Buck up, kids. You'll be there. They'll be there. We'll all be there. In droves. The UC's got the balloons and the DJ has "Come On Eileen" queued...