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Articles in category Health Sciences: 32

The Smell of the Holidays

Posted 12/20/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments

It’s that time again, the holidays. For me, like many, it’s a time for nostalgia; mulling spices in the kettle on the wood stove in Maine, filling the house I grew up in with aromas of cinnamon and clove… decorating our freshly cut pine tree with peppermint candy canes… and my Grandmother’s kitchen …
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- Health Sciences
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- Smell
- Christmas
- Holidays
- Holiday
- Memory
- Neuroscience
Ancestry and Papillae, Teen Science Scholar Research

Posted 11/06/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
Today's blog is written by one of our 2012 Teen Science Scholars, Valeria Martinez. Over the summer she learned how we collect and process information in the Genetics of Taste study. She delved into the data and came up with the question she wanted to investigate from start to finish: question, hy…
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- Health Sciences
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- Teen Science Scholars
- Taste
AChemS Day 1: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Posted 08/15/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
By Nicole Garneau, PhD If you are a fan of Shakespeare you will have recognized this quote from Macbeth. If you are a fan of Bradbury you will have recognized this from his 1962 novel of the same name. Either way, the theme is clear--a storm brings conflicting natures. In the case of Bradbu…
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- Health Sciences
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- Genetics
AChemS 2012 Day 2: The Flavor of Things to Come

Posted 08/15/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
By Nicole Garneau, PhD This is going to sound like a "no duh" story, but trust me scientists are really only just getting started to understand how expectations about what we are about to eat can actually trick our brains into thinking something tastes good or bad, regardless of how it "rea…
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- Health Sciences
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- Taste
AChemS 2012 Day 3: Sensing Brain Disease

Posted 08/15/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
By Nicole Garneau, PhD I'm taking a detour from my intrigue with taste to jump into the world of smell. We take our ability to smell for granted everyday when we eat, and also in the way that it affects our memories and emotions. But that's not what inspired this blog post today. Here is wh…
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- Health Sciences
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- Taste
AChemS 2012 Day 4: The Rebirth of Taste

Posted 08/08/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
We've all experienced the angst of a burned tongue, the subsequent moaning and groaning about it, the diminished level of joy when eating. And then, out of nowhere it seems, the tongue is back and ready for action. It's the miracle of life, um, kind of, at the cellular level, and it's al…
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- Health Sciences
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- Taste
Blue Tongue Luv 4 Denver Post & YourHub

Posted 06/13/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments

The Genetics of Taste Lab is thrilled to do a shout out to the Denver Post and YourHub. Thanks to reporter Carri Wilbanks for showcasing our one-of-a-kind community-based genetics lab at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Carri's picture is worth a 1000 words, th…
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- Health Sciences
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- Blue Tongue
Colorado Legacy Foundation 2012 Summit, Presentation Resources

Posted 04/02/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
Resources to compliment the "Taste of Health" presentation at the Colorado Legacy Foundation Healthy School Summit, 2012-04-04 Denver Museum of Nature & Science Info:
- Free Admission for organized school and youth groups /teachers/featured-updates/free-admission/
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- Health Sciences
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- Taste
Yo Pearl Salutes Cool Science Chicks: Meet Carolyn Dong

Posted 03/22/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments

I first read about Dr. Carolyn Dong (now Shore) in one of my very favorite nerd guilty-pleasures, a publication by the American Society for Microbiology called MICROBE (see this link for more MICROBE madness). When I looked her up on her advisor's website, I was stoked to see this:…
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How Would You Define Edible?

Posted 02/16/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
On the bristling cold morning of January 23rd, exactly one month prior to the opening reception for BMoCA's 2012 spring exhibition, I parked my truck in front of the studio and home of Viviane Le Courtois. About a week or so earlier I had received an email from the Museum highlighting the new …
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- Health Sciences
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- Taste
- Genetics