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Scientists Closer To Creating Artificial Noses

Posted by samzenpus on from the can-you-smell-me-now dept.

Scientists at MIT have moved closer to being able to create an artificial nose after finding a way to mass-produce smell receptors. The MIT RealNose project seeks to recreate the most complex and least-understood of the five senses: smell. The team plans to work with researchers around the world to develop a portable microfluidic device that can identify various smells, including diseases with unique odors, such as diabetes and certain cancers.

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  1. Five senses? by Maxmin · · Score: 2, Informative

    The MIT RealNose project seeks to recreate the most complex and least-understood of the six senses, smell.

    You forgot the kinesthetic senses, like acceleration, and the primary vestibular sense organ, the cochlea. Everybody forgets that one.

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