Two scientific groups tasted victory this week in a race to identify a candidate gene for controlling our proverbial sweet tooth. The two teams pulled ahead of several others scrambling to describe the genetic basis of sweet-taste perception
in mammals.
“It’s been a kind of dogfight,” says Danielle R. Reed, a behavioral geneticist on a team at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.
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