Friday, 31 March 2017

Giving the underserved the care they deserve

Nobody likes strong smells coming from other human beings. It's just that social convention: you are nice, if you smell nice, and you are a monster  - likeShakespeare's Caliban - if you smell bad. ​Caliban, often depicted as a Golumn-like creature, is one of the first cases of fish odor syndrome depicted in the literature. No amount of soap and water would help him to wash the smell away, as his body is constantly producing a pungent small molecule trimethylamine.  Caliban [...]...

Guo Y, Hwang LD, Li J, Eades J, Yu CW, Mansfield C, Burdick-Will A, Chang X, Chen Y, Duke FF.... (2017) Genetic analysis of impaired trimethylamine metabolism using whole exome sequencing. BMC medical genetics, 18(1), 11. PMID: 28196478  

Callewaert C, Lambert J, & Van de Wiele T. (2016) Towards a bacterial treatment for armpit malodour. Experimental dermatology. PMID: 27892611  




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