The ocean of chemical signals

The environment is an ocean of olfactory communications between all living beings…what do the receptors look like?

We’re sharing knowledge about receptors : Richard’s bio world and Raewyn’s imagined shapes and mechanisms.  We’re both asking questions about the invisible.

We’re shaped by the things that we like.  We’re talking about the word ‘like’–as in finding agreeable, enjoyable or satisfactory. We’re distilling the smell of used socks, placing them into a machine that releases the odours for our visitors. We ask them to colour code the smells.

Perhaps we don’t have much choice in the things that we like and dislike– as illustrated in the smelly t-shirt experiment.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7630893