CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING NEWS - As an unpredictable year ends, many of us still turn to a predictable resolution for the new year: to get more exercise. But what if your sense of smell could move you to move more? Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, think that might be the case, if you’ve got the right genes . . . and you’re a mouse.
A team led by biologists Sachiko Haga-Yamanaka and Theodore Garland Jr.found that mice bred to voluntarily exercise had distinctly different senses of smell than mice that didn’t exercise (PLOS One 2020, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241758).