Richard Axel
Nobel Lecture
Scents and Sensibility: A Molecular Logic of Olfactory Perception
Richard Axel held his Nobel Lecture December 8, 2004, at Sal Adam, Berzeliuslaboratoriet, Karolinska Institutet.
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