Thank You for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
Psalm 139:14 NLT
"A spatial code governs olfactory receptor choice and aligns sensory maps in the nose and brain (Brann et al., Cell Press, 28 April 2026). Researchers created a detailed diagram of smell receptors in the nose that fills in missing details of how olfaction works.
In this paper, researchers Brann and colleagues made a groundbreaking discovery that overturned decades of assumptions that the neurons carrying olfactory receptors were randomly distributed. The press release from Harvard Medical School, reproduced at ScienceDaily, describes the discovery in the following way:
This well organized and structured olfactory system now joins the list of other sensory organs (for vision, hearing, and touch) where receptor maps have been charted as highly organized, and also testifies as yet another example of something thought to be random now being revealed as exquisitely ordered.
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
Psalm 139:14 NLT
"A spatial code governs olfactory receptor choice and aligns sensory maps in the nose and brain (Brann et al., Cell Press, 28 April 2026). Researchers created a detailed diagram of smell receptors in the nose that fills in missing details of how olfaction works.
In this paper, researchers Brann and colleagues made a groundbreaking discovery that overturned decades of assumptions that the neurons carrying olfactory receptors were randomly distributed. The press release from Harvard Medical School, reproduced at ScienceDaily, describes the discovery in the following way:
“By mapping millions of neurons in mice, researchers discovered that smell receptors in the nose aren’t random at all—they’re arranged in neat, overlapping stripes based on receptor type, forming a hidden structure scientists never knew existed. Even more striking, this layout mirrors how smell information is mapped in the brain, revealing a coordinated system from nose to neural circuits.
What they found challenges long-standing assumptions. Instead of being randomly distributed, the neurons that carry these receptors are highly organized. They form horizontal bands, or stripes, running from the top of the nose to the bottom,
grouped by receptor type.”
This well organized and structured olfactory system now joins the list of other sensory organs (for vision, hearing, and touch) where receptor maps have been charted as highly organized, and also testifies as yet another example of something thought to be random now being revealed as exquisitely ordered.
From a Biblical creationist perspective, though, this discovery is not surprising."
CEH