Since mammals typically have thousands of types of olfactory receptor genes, biologists have long wondered how it’s possible that each olfactory sensory neuron is equipped with only one kind. A team of researchers led by Stavros Lamvardas of the University of California, San Francisco used the Advanced Light Source’s National Center for X-ray Tomography, led by Carolyn Larabell and Mark LeGros, to help understand the unique epigenetic mechanism by which each olfactory nerve cell sequesters all but a single receptor gene. More>
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