New Type of Taste Cell Discovered in Taste Buds

Our mouths may be home to a newly discovered set of multi-tasking taste cells that, unlike most known taste cells, which detect individual tastes, are capable of detecting sour, sweet, bitter and umami stimuli. A research team led by Kathryn Medler at the University at Buffalo reports this discovery in a study published 13th August in PLOS Genetics.
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