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....
This collaboration moves the world closer to digitizing odors to be recorded and reproduced....
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....
PHILADELPHIA (July 13, 2023) – The Monell Chemical Senses Center is an integral member of public-private partnerships led by Gilead Sciences, Inc. announced today to develop investigational pediatric formulations of TAF (tenofovir) and SOF (sofosbuvir) designed to eliminate bitterness in these two drugs. “The goal is...
After an international search, the Board of Directors of the Monell Chemical Senses Center announces that Benjamin P.C. Smith, PhD, Director of the Singapore Future Ready Food Safety Hub, will be the next Monell Director and President....
The Monell Chemical Senses Center, with colleagues from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), The Ohio State University, and University of Florida, has received funding from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) to organize a visionary conference titled, “Towards Universal Chemosensory Testing.”...
The sense of taste is among the first to come into contact with food before we ingest it, but whether animals can taste basic or alkaline food and how they do it remained unclear until now....
A research team from Monell Chemical Senses Center recently showed that the smell test SCENTinel 1.1 can successfully discriminate between different types of smell disorders. The recent paper, published in Chemical Senses, also provides evidence that SCENTinel 1.1 is the only direct olfactory test to...
Contact: Ahmed Barakat, abarakat@monell.org Findings describe a more accessible, efficient method to make next-generation therapies targeting neurodegenerative disorders PHILADELPHIA (December 23, 2022) - For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that human taste cells can be reprogrammed into neuron-like cells. The team, led by Hakan Ozdener, MD,...