Our attraction to sugar has grown to an unhealthy level. The average person in the United States now consumes more than 100 ...

Yet, despite more than 20 years of study, the sweet receptor’s precise architecture remained elusive, even as scientists ...

Could your tongue be the key to helping you lose weight? With the aid of new research, scientists say it may be. For the ...

Researchers have found that the heart possesses “sweet taste” receptors, similar to those on our tongues, and stimulating ...

“By uncovering the structure of the sweet receptor, we gain knowledge into the molecular mechanisms that govern how we detect ...

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

For the first time, researchers have mapped out the three-dimensional structure of the tongue and the sweet taste receptor. These receptors can detect a large number of different chemicals that ...

The sweet receptors on our tongue can detect a large number of different chemicals that taste sweet, from common table sugar (also known as sucrose) to antimicrobial enzymes in chicken eggs.