Achievement

A mystery has been unfolding at the intersection of pungent chemicals, temperate temperatures, and a question of detection: how do insects discriminate the noxious from the innocuous? At the center is a single protein, TRPA1; however, this puzzle has implications from human pain to bug spray. Read Vince Panzano's lay summary of his work and the Nature paper at: http://blogs.brandeis.edu/science/page/9/