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Contact: Thania Benios
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Rockefeller University

The Plasticity of Smell

Caption: During the first few days of life, chronic exposure to carbon dioxide (right) rather than air (left) alters the activity of projection neurons and interneurons in the fly brain -- research that is first to show that the olfactory system is plastic.

Credit: Rockefeller University

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