Know Someone Sick? Your Own Smell Might Give It Away
Bodily odors of healthy animals change when they are near sick animals.
24 September, 2018
Press Releases
A New Defender For Your Sense Of Smell
Mysterious sensory cells may protect the olfactory epithelium by initiating defenses against viruses, bacteria, and other potentially harmful invaders....
18 September, 2018
Busting Bitter, Saving Lives
STTR Phase I grant funds academic-commercial partnership using taste technology to improve human health
13 September, 2018
New Scientific and Patient-Focused Conference to Address Treatments for Taste and Smell Disorders
Conference will lead to group consensus statement on directions for gene therapy and stem cell-based research
27 June, 2018
Unique Sensory Responses to the Pediatric HIV Medication Kaletra
The Taste of Personalized Medicine
13 December, 2017
A Taste Cell Encyclopedia
A powerful genetic technology, single cell RNA-seq, will provide key insight on how different types of taste cells function....
08 August, 2017
Bitter or Sweet? How Taste Cells Decide What They Want to Be
New study provides insight into the genes and molecules that shape taste cell development
21 June, 2017
The Social Costs of Smell Loss in Older Women
Older women who do less well on a smell identification task also tend to have fewer social connections....
22 March, 2017
Potential New Causes for the Odor-Producing Disorder TMAU
Exome sequencing provides insight into diagnostic criteria for rare metabolic disorder
14 February, 2017
Monell Receives Grant to Characterize Distinctive Odor of Ovarian Cancer
Innovative research will facilitate sensitive diagnostic screening device to identify deadly disease in early treatable stages.
06 February, 2017
With Eyes or Noses? How Young Children Use Sensory Cues to Make Social Decisions
Monell study reveals children older than five use odor information to evaluate faces
19 December, 2016
Does Good-Tasting Food Cause Weight Gain?
New research suggests that desirable taste does not necessarily lead to weight gain....
15 December, 2016