image: Highly abundant olfactory receptors are tuned to detect food odors in humans and pheromones in mouse. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 31st, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.R. Saraiva at Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues was titled, "A transcriptomic atlas of mammalian olfactory mucosae reveals an evolutionary influence on food odor detection in humans." view more
Credit: Luis Saraiva, Eman Abou-Moussa