They Smell Like Twins

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How much you smell depends on how often you bathe, but precisely how you smell depends on your genes, a new study suggests. The body odors of identical twins are significantly more similar than the scents of unrelated people, researchers in Switzerland have found. The results could pave the way for new tools to diagnose disease or identify people based on scent.

Body odor emanates from a chemical reaction between bacteria on the skin and sweat, a secretion that itself is odorless

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