Monell Center Researchers Show that Food Protein Can Eliminate Pungency and Bitterness of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Findings encourage increased consumption of healthy olive oil for culinary purposes...
23 June, 2021
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Tug-of-War Receptors Controlling Sour Taste Detection in Fruit Flies Sheds Light on Human Taste Biology
PHILADELPHIA – Sour taste does not have the nearly universal appeal that sweet taste does. Slightly sour foods or drinks such as yogurt and lemon juice are yummy to many, but such highly sour foods as spoiled milk are yucky, even dangerous. Like humans, many...
17 June, 2021
Join Monell at the Philadelphia Flower Show this Saturday, June 12
For the last two months, Monell's outreach crew has been getting in shape for Philadelphia's first outdoors Flower Show. This Saturday, June 12, join us at FDR park for a conversation on your sense of smell as well as your memories and experience with odors....
08 June, 2021
Monell Center Scientists Find that Insulin is Necessary for Repairing Olfactory Neurons: Findings Point to Possible Treatment for Smell Loss
PHILADELPHIA (May 17, 2021) – Researchers have known for some time that insulin plays a vital role in regeneration and growth in some types of neurons that relay environmental sensory information to our brains, such as sight. However, they know relatively little about the role...
17 May, 2021
International Advisory Council Member Takes on New Role with Monell
Monell International Advisory Council (IAC) member Judith Wellington, PhD, is stepping into an expanded role this month as the newest member of the Board of Directors....
28 April, 2021
Monell Scientist Honored for Career Achievement in Chemosensory Research
Monell Chemical Senses Center biopsychologist Julie A. Mennella, PhD, has been recognized by the Association for Chemoreception Sciences with the 2020 Max Mozell Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Chemical Senses and will present a lecture at its virtual annual meeting on 22 April 2021....
20 April, 2021
Sensory Nutrition and Disease: NIH Workshop Report and Beyond
Basic science and clinical researchers at the interface of sensory and nutrition sciences explore the potential of chemosensory biology to influence food preferences and nutrition....
17 February, 2021
Joseph G. Brand III, Research Neuroscientist Who Discovered That Cats Can’t Taste Sweets, Dies at 75
The research neuroscientist known mostly for his work with the sense of taste, died Dec. 28 of Parkinson’s disease at home....
12 February, 2021
What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?
Monell scientists share their insights in a New York Times Magazine article on the coronavirus’s strangest symptom, which has opened new doors to understanding our most neglected sense....
28 January, 2021
Monell Center Receives Kleberg Foundation Grant to Discriminate Bacterial and Viral Immune Responses to Reduce Antibiotic Use
PHILADELPHIA, January 18, 2021 - According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly three million people will acquire an antibiotic-resistant infection each year in the United States. Doctors are currently overprescribing antibiotics for feverish individuals during the pandemic, despite widespread knowledge that COVID-19 is caused...
18 January, 2021