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

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

The bitter bracket fungus, Amaropostia stiptica, is probably not available at your local farmer's market, and if you didn't ...

reach the mouth and activate taste receptors. These cells — which are buried in the taste buds — are the ones that recognize ...

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

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 ...

"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 ...

The molecular world of bitter compounds has so far only been partially explored. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich in Freising and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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