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,...
PHILADELPHIA (December 21, 2022). Earlier this fall, Amber Alhadeff, PhD, from the Monell Chemical Senses Center, was honored by the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) as part of the 2022 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, when they welcomed the six outstanding stem cell...
Contact: Karen Kreeger, kkreeger@monell.org (PHILADELPHIA) December 21, 2022. The Monell Chemical Senses Center has received $1,000,000 in Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program funds for the immediate creation of quality jobs for Pennsylvanians. The program – Monell’s first such grant – finances projects that result in employment...
The Board of Directors of the Monell Chemical Senses Center has appointed Nancy E. Rawson, PhD, Acting Director and President. Her new role was effective July 1, 2022, and she has assumed the full duties of the Director's office....
The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today the newest class of the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences....
The Monell Chemical Senses Center, in collaboration with the Smell and Taste Association of North America (STANA) and Jefferson Health, is conducting a survey of people who have experienced smell and/or taste dysfunction, as well as their caregivers and family members. ...
The large meta-analysis advances our understanding of the underrated symptom...
Project is relevant to COVID-induced cases, as well as other taste and smell disorders...
55 years after its initial contribution, the Monell Foundation makes a transformational investment....
Sudden smell and taste loss has become a well-known symptom of COVID-19. However, some people have also woken up to discover that their usual beloved coffee odor has been distorted and now smells like garbage or rotting meat, a condition known as parosmia. Others smell...