Linda Buck and Richard Axel, the 2004 Nobel laureates for medicine and physiology, heralded a new era of smell research in the twenty-first century with their discoveries on odorant receptors and ...

A research team from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich has identified the human odorant receptor responsible for the perception of this special ...

2. How does odorant receptor activity control axon guidance and refinement? The axons of all olfactory sensory neurons that express a particular odorant receptor subtype project to one of two ...

In the study, "Engineered odorant receptors illuminate the basis of odor discrimination," published in Nature, researchers ...