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Page 4 • Tuesday, June 8, 1999 Tbefel Scientist George Preti sniffs out causes of oder-related diseases PHILADELPHIA (AP) — George Preti approaches his patients sniffing. He snuffles under their armpits, takes deep whiffs of their necks and slowly sniffs up and down their bodies. “Mmm-hmm,” he says, jotting down notes. “OK, take a deep breath and exhale into my face.” Preti can get a good idea of what the problem is from using a single diagnostic instrument: his nose. Preti, who counts himself among America’s ex perts on body odor, is a specialist at the Monell Chem ical Senses Center in Philadelphia, where more than 50 scientists focus their research exclusively on smell, taste and chemical irritation. The 31-year-old non profit center is the only one of its kind in the nation. And while the researchers’ job duties at times bor der on the revolting, their work provides crucial in formation about disease, dangerous chemicals and food safety, Anita Pickus of the National Institutes of Health said. ' “It’s basic science that they’re doing there,” Pickus, senior adviser of the agency’s Office of Rare Diseases, said. “To know what these simple mechanisms are. to know how processes occur today, leads you to ther apy in the future.” For many, the center’s research is their only hope for a better life. On a recent day, Sandy Gordon walked into Preti’s office with three plastic containers filled with her urine. Afflicted with trimethylaminuria, a rare disease that can make a person smell like rotten fish, Gordon turned the samples in for tests. “Dr. Preti was my last hope,” she said. “When I found out what I had, I just broke down crying. I came here thinking 1 was the only person wit problem. 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