IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Inscent, Inc. has received a Small Business Innovative Research grant from the US National Science Foundation to continue the development of novel technologies and products based on insect chemosensory proteins. The funded project concerns our proprietary high throughput assay system, Attenu. The Attenu system is a highly efficient assay for rapidly identifying molecules that bind to insect chemosensory proteins and potentially alter their activity. These include small molecules from combinatorial chemical or natural product libraries.