
Cori Bargmann on the Genetics of Transparent Worms, Supertasters and Cancer
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The Difference Between Taste and Smell
The difference between taste and smell is that there are a lot of organic chemicals that travel through the ata to reach aaa. What you think of as the flavor of food is largely organic chemicals that are released when you chew the food, that go back up into your nose. The worms have been known to detect some salts and some amino acids. And now we know that a lot of the molecules that i discovered through the important m i t chemical stock room are, in fact, ah chemicals that are release by bacteria in the worm's natural environments.
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