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2018 Grantee News Items

Know someone sick? Your own smell might give it away: Bodily odors of healthy animals change when they are near sick animals
Monell Center (09/24/2018)
A new defender for your sense of smell
Monell Center (09/18/2018)
Fine-tuned sense of smell relies on timing: First impressions matter for precise scent identification
Duke University (09/14/2018)
Brain has natural noise-cancelling circuit: Motor cortex tells auditory cortex to ignore walking sounds
Duke University (09/12/2018)
New research shows how we turn on & off languages—and that doing so is easier than previously thought
New York University (09/10/2018)
A surprise ending: Noise-cancelling technology takes small business from iTunes to Amazon
NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) (09/10/2018)
Ending 40-year quest, scientists reveal ‘hearing’ protein: Sensor protein TMC1 is responsible for hearing and balance
Harvard Medical School (08/22/2018)
Imaging the inner ear promises to be new gold standard for hearing researchers
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear via Canadian Light Source (08/22/2018)
Researchers find a neural “auto-correct” feature we use to process ambiguous sounds
New York University Abu Dhabi (08/22/2018)
Clinical trial led by University of South Carolina researchers finds electrical stimulation can improve speech production among stroke survivors by 70 percent
University of South Carolina (08/21/2018)
Study sheds light on how brain lets animals hunt for food by following smells
NYU School of Medicine (08/21/2018)
Scientists uncover new details in how sense of smell develops
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (08/09/2018)
Ability to taste RNA speeds the growth and increases survival of fruit fly larvae Texas A&M Health Science Center
ScienceDaily (08/07/2018)
Catching the dance of antibiotics and ribosomes at room temperature: A new imaging technique is allowing researchers to pinpoint ways of modifying drugs to avoid side effects
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (08/06/2018)
Hearing class: Researchers identify molecularly distinct subtypes of neurons that encode sound
Harvard Medical School (08/02/2018)