Researchers crack 30 year old mystery of odor switching in worms - EurekAlert

Worms can discriminate between more than 1000 scents but how they do this has puzzled scientists for decades. A new finding that a protein called arrestin is key to this process has implications that stretch beyond worm olfaction and could help explain how th…

video: Time-lapse video of C. elegans worms on an agar plate locating a drop of an attractive odor (blue circle). 180X actual speed.view more  Credit: Daniel Merritt To smell or not to smell can be… [+5896 chars]

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