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Articles tagged Taste: 11

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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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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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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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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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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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
Yo Pearl Tackles Tip of the Tongue and Six Flavors

Posted 01/03/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
Tip of the Tongue: Humans May Taste at Least 6 Flavors Taste is fascinating, complex, and it turns out, very misunderstood. I love that the sense of taste was highlighted recently on both Science Live and picked up by Fox News online, but found myself editing the gener…
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Yo Pearls of Olfaction Wisdom for James

Posted 10/20/2011 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
I was recently at a beer tasting event at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, whereupon someone remarked that a particular ale had an aroma that smelled distinctly of melon. Now I've heard, especially in wine, how particular varietals can give off odors of pepper, leather, graphite, or …
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- Health Sciences
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- Taste
- Smell
Newly Discovered Taste Map in the Brain

Posted 10/07/2011 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
Sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami: these are the five basic tastes our visitors learn about as part of the museum's Genetics of Taste research project. It is the finely tuned array of these taste qualities which allows us to savor tasty meals or to take a sip of spoiled milk an…
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- Health Sciences
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- Genetics
Miracle Fruit: West Africa's Secret Berry

Posted 08/04/2011 by Nicole Garneau | Comments

Some of my fondest scientific discussions in graduate school occurred while eating lunch with fellow students and post-docs. Here we would hash out problems, discuss hypotheses, and defend the merits of our research. For me, pairing food and scientific discourse is a natural, welco…
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