A bitter taste receptor, TAS2R14, has been shown to respond to both extracellular and intracellular signals. Indeed, it can respond to both signals simultaneously. This finding is especially ...

On May 14, 2024, a Reddit user posted a screenshot of a social preview for an article claiming men have taste receptors on their testicles. The article's headline read: "Men Are Dipping Their Balls ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have revealed the detailed structure of the bitter taste receptor, a protein called TAS2R14, and have shown ...

Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda first proposed umami as a basic taste—in addition to sweet, sour, salty and bitter—in the early 1900s. About eight decades later, the scientific community officially ...

The gastric cell's own bitter taste receptor TAS2R16 was involved in this anti-inflammatory effect and also in the stimulation of proton release," reports Richter. "The peptide concentrations tested ...

Past studies have shown that the human sweet taste receptor conveys sweet perception in the mouth and may help regulate glucose metabolism throughout the body. At the same time, the anti-inflammatory ...

Schematic model of the excretion of incorporated anticancer drugs from ABCB1 via the activation of TAS2Rs. Various anticancer drugs are incorporated into cancer cells, followed by severe cell damage ...

“You don’t know what you’re missing till it’s gone” is a truism that certainly applies to taste. It took a pandemic for taste to get attention. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...