Mice That Can Smell Light? It's Possible.

In case you didn't get a chance to read The Crimson this morning, one study co-authored by a Harvard professor showed that mice engineered with a certain protein have a peculiar power: the ability to "smell" light.

By using a specific kind of protein, researchers created mice whose olfactory bulbs—the part of the brain involved in sensing odors—had neurons that responded when scientists shone light on them.

To read more about this pretty cool development, check out the article about it in today's Crimson.