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Monell Researchers Quantify Changes in Odor Signaling as Two Nasal Nerve Systems Interact

A research team from the Monell Chemical Senses Center demonstrated, using a novel quantitative analysis, that the neuronal response to odors undergoes some modifications in the nose. Such early processing of olfactory signals is a result of...
27-Oct-2023 4:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Registration Open for First-of-its-Kind Conference to Establish Routine Smell and Taste Testing

Registration is open for a visionary conference titled, “Towards Universal Chemosensory Testing.” The Monell Chemical Senses Center, with colleagues from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), The Ohio State University, and the University of...
23-Oct-2023 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Monell Center Team Discovers Markers that Can Predict How Children Will Tolerate Sweetened Medicine

A multidisciplinary research group specializing in pediatrics, genetics, and psychophysics, co-led by the Monell Chemical Senses Center, has identified wide variation in the sensory perception of a pediatric formulation of ibuprofen — some that...
18-Sep-2023 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Monell Center Helps Discover Epigenetic Mechanism that Causes Bitter Taste Distortion

A new study published in iScience, by Hong Wang, PhD, an Associate Member at the Monell Chemical Sense Center, and colleagues sheds light on the mechanisms involved in the complex interplay between taste perception and immune function. Their work...
22-Aug-2023 5:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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International Study Shows that Taste, Independent of Smell, Can Also be Significantly Diminished in Patients with COVID-19

Smell loss became the cardinal symptom of COVID-19 early in the pandemic and has ignited research on how smell and taste function. An international study led by the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research (GCCR) and the Monell Chemical Senses...
17-Aug-2023 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Benjamin P.C. Smith, PhD, Named Director and President of the Monell Center, Taking the Helm at Critical Point in Sensory Science

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.
9-May-2023 4:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Monell Center Receives Funding for First-of-its-Kind Conference to Establish Universal Chemosensory Testing

The Monell Chemical Senses Center, with colleagues from Massachusetts General Hospital, The Ohio State University, and University of Florida, has received funding from the NIH Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to organize a...
3-Apr-2023 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Monell Center Team Discovers Molecular Basis for Alkaline Taste

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. Monell scientists identified a previously unknown chloride...
17-Mar-2023 4:20 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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Dealing with Those Telltale Malodors

By educating physicians about unique properties of the olfactory system, Monell scientist Pamela Dalton, PhD, MPH, seeks to increase understanding of stigmas associated with incontinence
28-Jun-2018 12:05 PM EDT

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