Researchers enjoy bitter taste of success

September 20, 2002 at 2:28 pm - More than 2 years ago

Taste has been the most elusive of the five senses. Now, genetic work is revealing how taste buds handle the chemical information that washes over them.

Bitter receptors (green) are made by the same taste cells on a rat’s tongue that make gustducin (red). Cells that make both types of protein appear yellow. Cell

Scientists from NIH and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) describe these findings in the March 17 Cell.

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