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How to bring back the sense of smell

Treatments for olfactory loss are currently scarce, but with millions of people unable to smell as a result of COVID-19, researchers are pursuing the problem with renewed vigour.
  1. Sarah DeWeerdt

    1. Sarah DeWeerdt is a freelance science journalist in Seattle.

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Nearly a year after he contracted COVID-19 in March 2020, Marc Pilchman sat down with a plate of Chinese noodles with beef. Pilchman, who is 80 years old and lives in New Jersey, had found the recipe in a newspaper article, whose author wrote that it had helped him when he was suffering from a loss of smell after recovering from COVID-19. Pilchman had promptly gone online and ordered a long list of ingredients for the recipe.

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Nature 606, S7-S9 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01628-9

This article is part of Nature Outlook: Smell, an editorially independent supplement produced with the financial support of third parties. About this content.

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