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Professor Finger inspires young scientists with answers to
taste, smell questions  Dr. Finger, along with museum curator
Nicole Garneau, Ph.D.  AURORA, Colo. - Why do onions make us
cry? How come peppers are hot? Why do you use mice to study
taste and smell?  Inquiring young minds had some great questions
for Professor Tom Finger of the CU School of Medicine's
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and the Rocky
Mountain Taste and Smell Center last month. Dr. Finger hosted
four hours of live lab interaction as students connected via the
web while at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science as well as
from their classrooms in Monta