The question that obsessed Nobel Laureate Linda Buck was how our sense of smell worked.

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"That's where the joy comes from, and I think also where the great discoveries come from."
The question that obsessed Nobel Laureate Linda Buck was how our sense of smell worked.
In 1999 she revealed the answer to be a complicated system in which each olfactory receptor detects more than one odorant and can be detected by more that one receptor. This code underlies our ability to recognise more than 10,000 different odours, just as we can spell thousands of words with just 26 letters.
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