Media Mentions

National Geographic: Do you love or loathe coffee? Your genes may be to blame.

A warm cup of coffee is a necessary part of the morning routine for millions of people around the world. And as the end of daylight saving time messes yet again with our sleep patterns, plenty of people in the U.S. may reach for an...

02 November, 2018

Chemistry World: Cinema air chemistry linked to film ratings

After discovering in 2016 that movie audiences emit more volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during stressful scenes, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany have expanded on their work by developing a method that they claim can scientifically determine the appropriate age rating...

26 October, 2018

The Huffington Post – Life: American children should eat more vegemite. Here’s why.

First, I want to thank you for being open-minded, America. I know most of you think Vegemite, known as a pantry pariah everywhere except in Australia, is nasty stuff. But I’m not suggesting you eat Vegemite, adult Americans. It’s too late for you. The salty black...

26 October, 2018

Newsweek: Your grandma’s diet could have made you obese – mouse study suggests

The negative side effects of gorging on a high-fat diet could be passed on to great-grandchildren, a study involving mice has suggested. Rodents who were fed a fat-heavy diet were more likely to have pups that were obese and insulin-resistant, even if they were not obese...

11 October, 2018

Science News: Can science build a better burger?

Two groups of scientists, for similar reasons, are exploring opposite ways of changing how meat is made. One approach grows just the edible parts of the animal; the other tries to simulate meat with plant. Click here to read the full article...

20 September, 2018

Philadelphia Business Journal: Why Monell’s latest NIH grant is leaving no bitter tastes

The Philadelphia-based Monell Center and Discovery BioMed Inc. of Birmingham, Ala., have received a $271,000 National Institutes of Health grant. The two are in an academic-commercial partnership using taste technology to improve human health. The funding, awarded through the Small Business Technology Transfer program at the...

17 September, 2018

Chemistry World: A taste of why successful salt substitutes remain so elusive

Salty taste’s unique chemistry has stymied the search for an effective salt alternative, and a more realistic goal might be a salty taste enhancer. It is well-known that overconsumption of salt is a major contributor to morbidity from hypertension-related illnesses globally, with governments and health organisations...

03 September, 2018

The Boston Globe: What’s that smell? Electronic noses can sniff it out

Ammonia hits the nose with a caustic punch, a fitting warning from a gas that irritates the throat and sends the lungs gasping for air. But to Jan Schnorr, CEO of C2Sense, it smells like sweet opportunity. Click here to read the full article...

25 August, 2018

Live Science: Should breast-feeding women really drink Guinness?

New mothers are commonly heaped with advice — some of it welcome, some not. But there's one rather unconventional piece of wisdom that stands out from the rest: For decades, women have been told they should drink Guinness — the dark, Irish beer — to...

21 July, 2018

WHYY – The Pulse: Same genes, different tastes

Every August, Dr. Danielle Reed drives from her lab in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Twinsburg, Ohio for the annual Twins Days Festival. Most of the thousands of attendees are there for a weekend of twin bonding. But Reed — a geneticist who studies smell and taste at...

12 July, 2018