Due to the pandemic, “many people found it scientifically interesting to focus their research on smell,” said Valentina Parma, the assistant director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, a nonprofit research institute in Philadelphia. By one account, NIH funding of anosmia research nearly doubled between...
Benjamin P.C. Smith is the new executive director and president of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia’s independent research institution devoted to studying the senses of taste and smell. Trained as a toxicologist, Smith started in late August at the 132-employee center. He moved here from...
Children can find liquid medication too hard to swallow, or so sweet they’ll take more than they need. Genetic markers could predict these taste reactions....
Scientists discovered long ago how to represent sounds and colors with raw numbers, paving the way for smartphones, flat-screen TVs, and other devices of the electronic world. But odor and fragrance have remained quaintly stuck in a pre-digital era, characterized only with the subjective tool of...
This collaboration moves the world closer to digitizing odors to be recorded and reproduced....
In a world that celebrates chicken nuggets, snack puffs and french fries, how do you convince a child to choose better foods like broccoli, fresh fish or apple slices? If it feels like a losing battle, you’re not alone. Raising a healthy eater is one of...
Using a gene mapping tool, researchers show how different taste cells are affected by inflammation...
The study demonstrated that taste, independent of smell, is also greatly impacted by COVID-19...
Ha Nguyen, PhD, has been selected as Monell Chemical Senses Center‘s first Christensen Fellow....
Federica Genovese, PhD, has been named the Monell Center’s newest Morley R. Kare Fellow....