Monday, April 30, 2007

Smelling for first time results from knowing abnormalities in congenital loss of smell

Source: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Date: April 30, 2007

Summary:

New discoveries about the biochemical basis of the majority of cases of the congenital inability to smell any odor, no matter how strong, have enabled their discoverer, Dr. Robert I. Henkin, director of The Taste and Smell Clinic in Washington, DC, to treat such patients, enabling them to smell something for the first time in their lives.