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Mice that ‘smell’ light could help scientist better understand olfaction

October 18, 2010 by

Neurobiologists have created mice that can "smell" light, providing a potent new tool that could help researchers better understand the neural basis of olfaction. The work has implications for the future study of smell and of complex perception systems that do not lend themselves to easy study with traditional methods.

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