Although a bracket fungus proved to be the least palatable, it is not poisonous. This conclusion could make scientists ...

Scientists found powerful bitter compounds in a mushroom, revealing new insights into how our bodies sense bitterness.

New research from the Technical University of Munich suggests genetics may play a role in why some people find coffee more ...

This incredible ability of the skin cells has been uncovered by a new study that has revealed some little known facts about ...

Researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center have succeeded in growing mature taste receptor cells outside the body. They have also been successful in keeping the cells alive for a prolonged ...

The discovery could help create new "sensorially appealing foods" that improve digestion and feelings of fullness.

"What we discovered is that ibuprofen and naproxen inhibit activation of the sweet taste receptor in people, as well as in human cells," said senior author and Monell Member Paul AS Breslin ...

Both ibuprofen and naproxen potently inhibit hTAS1R2–TAS1R3 receptors that sense sweetness in a dose-dependent manner. The suppression of sugar signaling by ibuprofen and naproxen at physiological ...

The molecular world of bitter compounds has so far only been partially explored. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for ...

Piddini and her colleagues decided to investigate further, knocking out Gr64 function in larval epithelial cells containing the stress-inducing mutations. Losing the taste receptors resulted in “a ...

A group of scientists led by Professor Paul Breslin from Rutgers University (New Jersey, United States) has found that ...