Have you ever had a bitter taste in your mouth that won't go away? We have all been there. From a dose of antibiotics to poor oral hygiene, there are many factors that leave you with an extremely ...

Sometimes a medicine itself is responsible, but in other cases, the chemicals in a drug activate bitter taste receptors in your mouth. Paxlovid, an antiviral used to treat COVID, is perhaps one of ...

Stimulating any of those four taste receptor subtypes will leave a bitter taste in your mouth. But cyclamate doesn’t just activate the two bitter receptors, Behrens and his colleagues showed.

India’s Paris Olympics 2024 campaign turned out to be a bittersweet one with ups and downs alike. Be it the highs of Manu ...

Gene editing is removing compounds that make foods like brussels sprouts and blackberries taste bitter. Here’s what that means for the future of healthy foods.

More information: Lior Peri et al, A bitter anti-inflammatory drug binds at two distinct sites of a human bitter taste GPCR, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54157-6 Journal ...

This discovery is fascinating because bitter taste receptors are expressed in extra-oral tissues and the new study shows the potential of our cells to sense not only external but also internal ...