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Sweet-tooth Genetics: What We Can Learn from Sugar-loving Mice

Understanding how mammals process sweet taste has been one of Monell’s most important and longest research quests. Many of us eat too...

Perceiving the Flavor of Fat: A Monell Center Twins StudyResearchers Find Genetic Variation Shapes

There's a reason why some of us like fattier foods. It might not be quite what you think.

Identifying Treatments for Smell Loss

What if you couldn’t smell leaking gas in your kitchen, spoiled milk in your refrigerator – or the scent of your baby’s head? The sense...