Crossmodal Futures: Researchers Discover Further Link Between Touch And Smell

New research coming out of the Biological Sciences department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, reveals that a gene linked to touch in Caenorhabditis elegans worms (which have much simpler neurobiology than humans but with isolated parallels in gene expression) also codes processes for olfactory perception. For our purposes, the study is important for opening targeted avenues for ...