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Paul Breslin

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Paul Breslin
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Known forWork with human oral perception and flies
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology, Genetics
InstitutionsMonell Chemical Senses Center, Rutgers University

Paul Breslin is a geneticist and biologist.

He is most notable for his work in taste perception and oral irritation,[1] in humans as well as in Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly.

He is a member of the faculty at the Monell Chemical Senses Center and acts as director of the Science Apprenticeship Program. He is a professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.[2] Breslin and two colleaguesdiscovered that Oleocanthal, a compound found in extra-virgin olive oil kills a variety of human cancer cells without harming healthy cells.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Breslin, Paul; Spector, Alan (1992), "A Quantitative Comparison of Taste Reactivity Behaviors to Sucrose Before and After Lithium Chloride Pairings: A Unidimensional Account of Palatability", Behavioral Neuroscience, 106 (5), Philadelphia: 820–836, doi:10.1037/0735-7044.106.5.820, PMID 1332732
  2. ^ "Paul Breslin, Ph.D." Department of Nutritional Sciences. Rutgers University. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  3. ^ Branson, Ken (16 February 2015). "Ingredient in olive oil kills cancer cells with their own enzymes". Forum. The City University of New York. Retrieved 15 March 2023.