Engineered receptors show how humans tell countless odour molecules apart

Rafaella G. Naressi and Bettina Malnic ()

Nature, 2024, vol. 635, issue 8038, 295-296

Abstract: How do odorant receptors in the human nose recognize a wide variety of scent molecules? The structures of engineered versions of these receptors finally provide much-needed answers to this fundamental question.

Keywords: Structural biology; Neuroscience; Chemical biology; Synthetic biology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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