Linda Buck

Eventually. She figured it out. It was a Saturday night, I think, and I was in my kitchen. Sitting in her house, looking at the results of her experiments, she recognized a pattern. And I had colored pens. And I had written down the sequence. Her life's work. The genomic sequence of the smell receptors in the nose.

It was really beautiful. I remember just being stunned looking at them when I first had the first set of them. Linda couldn't believe what she was seeing. And I had a friend in the other room who was watching TV or something. I kept running back and forth saying, look at this. Can you believe this?

It was really beautiful. I remember just being stunned looking at them when I first had the first set of them. Linda couldn't believe what she was seeing. And I had a friend in the other room who was watching TV or something. I kept running back and forth saying, look at this. Can you believe this?

It was really beautiful. I remember just being stunned looking at them when I first had the first set of them. Linda couldn't believe what she was seeing. And I had a friend in the other room who was watching TV or something. I kept running back and forth saying, look at this. Can you believe this?

It was like patchwork quilts, where bits and pieces were exchanged between the different receptors to make proteins that would be able to detect different odorants.

It was like patchwork quilts, where bits and pieces were exchanged between the different receptors to make proteins that would be able to detect different odorants.

It was like patchwork quilts, where bits and pieces were exchanged between the different receptors to make proteins that would be able to detect different odorants.