Press Releases

New Scientific and Patient-Focused Conference to Address Treatments for Taste and Smell Disorders

Unique Sensory Responses to the Pediatric HIV Medication Kaletra

A Taste Cell Encyclopedia

A powerful genetic technology, single cell RNA-seq, will provide key insight on how different types of taste cells function....

Bitter or Sweet? How Taste Cells Decide What They Want to Be

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....

Potential New Causes for the Odor-Producing Disorder TMAU

Monell Receives Grant to Characterize Distinctive Odor of Ovarian Cancer

With Eyes or Noses? How Young Children Use Sensory Cues to Make Social Decisions

Does Good-Tasting Food Cause Weight Gain?

New research suggests that desirable taste does not necessarily lead to weight gain....

Monell Center Receives Funding to Develop Technologies to Improve Taste of Lifesaving Drugs

Children often reject certain medicines due to their horrible taste....

Cold and Bubbly: The Sensory Qualities that Best Quench Thirst

Understanding what causes thirst may help improve hydration in at-risk populations, including the elderly, soldiers, and athletes....

Digesting Sweet Taste

Gut enzymes in sweet taste cells may point the way to better-tasting non-caloric sweeteners....