Unlike the tongue, the skin does not perceive bitterness as a taste. However, keratinocytes—the skin's first line of defense—express bitter taste receptors that function as biological ...

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 ...

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.

Virtual reality could get more realistic thanks to scientists inventing an artificial tongue that can taste flavours, such as sourness and umami ...

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 ...

Both ibuprofen and naproxen potently inhibit hTAS1R2–TAS1R3 receptors that sense sweetness in a dose-dependent manner. The ...

“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, he says, because the researchers used the human bitter taste receptors, it’s likely that the same thing happens when a diet drink hits the human tongue. Behrens hopes the cell setup they ...

Has your sense of taste ever gone dull or disappeared after vaping? Vaper’s tongue could be to blame. The popularity of vaping has skyrocketed over the last couple of years, but still very ...