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Smells like bread

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Mammalian olfactory receptor genes have been engineered into a yeast expression system. The resulting cells provide a high-throughput screening system for studying receptor specificity and may find use as biosensors.

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Figure 1: Radhika et al. isolated rat olfactory epithelial cells, extracted mRNA from the cells and created a complementary DNA library of olfactory receptor genes.

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  1. David R. Walt is in the Department of Chemistry, Tufts University, 62 Talbot Avenue, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA. david.walt@tufts.edu,

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