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 ...
A biologist studies blind cavefish, a species of fish that dwell in cave ponds in Mexico. He looked at the timeline for when the cavefish develop additional taste buds on the head and chin, finding ...
For years, we were taught that the different taste receptors clump together in zones on our tongues. But it turns out that’s not quite the truth… You probably remember the diagram from school – a pink ...