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By Stephen Beech

The first-ever "smell map" has been created to sniff out exactly how the sense works.

First-ever “smell map” created to sniff out exactly how the sense works

A microscope photo of a cross section of a mouse nose. The mouse was genetically modified to express green fluorescent protein in smell neurons. A small subset of dying neurons is labeled in red. (Datta Lab via SWNS)

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First-ever “smell map” created to sniff out exactly how the sense works

A map of the thousand types of smell receptors in the olfactory tissue of a mouse nose, labeled by a color gradient. The bottom inset shows the precise spatial positions of a tagged subset of receptors. (Datta Lab via SWNS)

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