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Why We Smell Better When We Sniff

Caption: Cross section of olfactory sensory neurons in a mouse nose visualized by fluorescent staining of odorant receptor genes (red and green represent different odorant receptors). MOE: main olfactory epithelium; SO: septal organ.

Credit: Huikai Tian, PhD, Minghong Ma, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

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