The cloning of two new taste receptors represents a scrumptious advance ... cDNA libraries from taste buds in various areas of the tongue, as well as from single taste cells isolated from the ...

There are five basic tastes the tongue can recognise, and for each of them there is a set of receptors that respond to this taste alone, like a set of locks that are opened by specific keys.

Fat and calcium are among the leading candidates—both are believed to be detected by receptors on the tongue—but there’s no consensus yet. Taste receptors alone don’t produce tastes ...

So it seems strange that taste receptors would only be found on the tongue. Turns out ... and pharmacology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. "The person that discovers a new ...

Meiji University scientist has found a way to reproduce taste, just as we’ve long been able to do for sight and sound. The human tongue has separate receptors for detecting five basic tastes ...

Two papers published today (September 19)—one in Cell and the other in Current Biology—show that the otopetrin-1 proton channel in the tongue’s sour taste receptors is one of the components ...

Your taste buds recognize four flavors—sweet, sour, salt, and bitter—through receptors that are activated ... piece of the first food sample on the tongue of the taster. The taster should ...

A snake uses its forked tongue to pick up scent molecules from the air. When it brings its tongue back in, the molecules contact special receptors and the snake senses the molecules as a smell. A fly ...

What if you could detect allergens even better, so that before you even put something in your mouth, you knew whether it was dangerous? And what if frogs could help you do it?

“At the back of the tongue, there’s a V-shaped row of taste receptors that are specifically tuned to pick up fatty acids. These receptors also have enzymes that help break down the fat, making it ...