A new study describes an exciting discovery that changes the way we understand human bitter taste receptors. The research has revealed a hidden "pocket" inside one of the body's bitter taste ...

What if you could detect allergens even better, so that before you even put something in your mouth, you knew whether it was ...

Most whales and dolphins, which swallow prey whole, have lost almost all taste receptors. Something similar may have happened in humans. At Monell a scientist named Michael Tordoff handed me a ...

A study by the Technical University of Munich identified new bitter compounds in roasted Arabica coffee and examined their ...

Rat, mouse and human clones were fully sequenced ... reinforcing the belief that these are truly novel taste receptors. In addition, in situ hybridization showed TR1 and 2 to be concentrated ...

It tastes about ten times more bitter than caffeine and activates two of the approximately 25 bitter taste receptor types found in the human body, namely the TAS2R43 and TAS2R46 receptors.

Researchers have uncovered how genetic predisposition may play a role in determining how bitter coffee tastes.

known to taste about 10 times more bitter than caffeine and activate two of the roughly 25 bitter taste receptors in the ...

The researchers inserted the genes for the 25 subtypes into human kidney cells (an easier feat than working with real taste cells). Each gene included a marker that glowed when the receptors were ...

A study by researchers at the Technical University of Munich links genetics to how individuals perceive the bitterness in coffee. They identified compounds in Arabica coffee influencing taste. Despite ...