Exploring the 500 genes behind taste, smell
Smell, taste experts gather to share latest research, insights to these intimately connected senses that are perceived so differently among individuals. One new tool: the olfactometer. It dispenses puffs of scented air, then judges ability to name a smell; to distinguish one odor from a slightly different one; and to find the threshold of scent detection. And: Asthma drug restores sense of smell for some (click 'See also').
San Francisco Chronicle 2008-07-25
Categories: Health & Physiology, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Index: Alzheimer's disease, androstenone, anosmia, banana, Charles Wysocki, cilantro, cinnamon, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, environmental toxins, gasoline, International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste, leather, lemon, Leslie Vosshall, Lloyd Hastings, mint, Monell Chemical Senses Center, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders, Nutritional Sciences, Osmic Enterprises Inc., Parkinson's, pig steroid, prions, Richard Doty, Rockefeller University, Rocky Mountain Taste and Smell Center, Smell and Taste Center, Tom Finger, University of Connecticut, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Valerie Duffy, watermelon, wintergreen