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Sense of smell

  • 29/09/2003

There is a popular saying that one should not argue about flavours. Researchers from Israel-based Weizmann Institute of Science have found why this is true.

In our genome, around 1,000 genes code for the odour detecting receptors (responsible for our sense of smell and a great part of flavour perception). Of these, more than half have become totally inactive in all humans

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