WHYY – The Pulse: Same genes, different tastes

Every August, Dr. Danielle Reed drives from her lab in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Twinsburg, Ohio for the annual Twins Days Festival.

Most of the thousands of attendees are there for a weekend of twin bonding. But Reed — a geneticist who studies smell and taste at Philadelphia’s Monell Chemical Senses Center — has another goal: research.

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