Olfactory neurons (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Olfactory neurons

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CSHL Associate Professor Saket Navlakha teamed with Salk Institute researcher Shyam Srinivasan and other investigators to study the neurons responsible for smell discrimination in fruit flies and mice. Above: a mouse brain imaged by Simon Daste and Alexander Fleischmann at Brown University. Neurons that respond to an odor are brightly lit.

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Navlakha lab/Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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