Summary: A new study presents the first direct electrophysiological evidence showing how caffeine modulates taste perception at the organoid level. The researchers developed a biomimetic taste sensor by coupling 3D…
Category: taste perception
AI Reveals Bitter Taste Receptors’ Hidden Role in Gut-Brain Health
Summary: Researchers used AlphaFold3, the latest AI-based protein modeling system, to predict the structures of all 25 known human bitter taste receptors (T2Rs). Compared with AlphaFold2, AF3 consistently generated more…
