Do different cells in our nose respond to different smells?
Monday, May 5th, 2008 26 viewsPeople can smell thousands—perhaps even millions—of different scents. Yet scientists know that in the nose, there are only about 400 different types of odor receptors—proteins that capture scented molecules so that smells can be identified. Thus, there isn’t, obviously, one type of receptor that responds to a rose, ...
