Could we ever again smell flowers driven to extinction by humans? A scientist, a designer, and an olfactory artist have teamed up to resurrect the smell of extinct flowers. Using specimens supplied by the Harvard Herbarium, the interdisciplinary team was able to code the fragrance genes of the extinct flowers, fill in genome gaps with surviving plant DNA, and inject the code into yeast to fabricate scent microbes.
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