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Southern Methodist University

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Adam Norris, Floyd B. James Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at SMU, and graduate students Xiaoyu Liang and Canyon Calovich-Benne have determined that a gene linked to feeling touch may moonlight as an olfactory gene.

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SMU (Southern Methodist University), Hillsman S. Jackson

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