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NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Yesse Technologies, Inc., a New York-headquartered biotechnology company, developing a technology platform to digitize the sense of smell, announces today that it was awarded a $670,000 grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson s Research. The funds will be used to advance its nose-on-chip platform to detect the characteristic smell linked to Parkinson s disease (PD).
Yesse Technologies scientists recently validated the presence of a distinctive smell, arising from an oily skin secretion called sebum, in patients diagnosed with Parkinson s disease. The previous identification of a specific subset of odorant receptors, the proteins in the nose that detect smells, forms the foundation for further development of a lab-based smell test to detect Parkinson s potentially at very early stages of the disease.