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Making sense of scents: Deciphering our sense of smell

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN FRANCISCO Breaking a longstanding impasse in our understanding of olfaction, scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have created the first molecular-level, 3D picture of how an odor molecule activates a human odorant receptor, a crucial step in deciphering the sense of smell. The findings, appearing online March 15, 2023, in Nature, are poised...