A new study describes an exciting discovery that changes the way we understand human bitter taste receptors. The research has ...

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All vertebrates have taste receptors similar to ours, though not necessarily in the same places. “There are more taste receptors on the whiskers of a large catfish than there are on the tongues ...

“Taste stimuli are detected by taste receptors in taste buds. You have small pink bumps on the tip of your tongue, which are fungiform papillae – these house taste buds”, explains Dr Qian ...

But no one really knew why. It turns out that saccharin doesn’t just activate sweet taste receptors, it also blocks bitter ones — the same bitter taste receptors that cyclamate activates.

Here, the authors report the mGlu2-4 receptor structures in the inactive, intermediate and active states, and reveal the reason for the partial activity of the mono-liganded dimers. Bitter taste ...

This discovery is fascinating because bitter taste receptors are expressed in extra-oral tissues and the new study shows the potential of our cells to sense not only external but also internal ...