BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some taste cells are multitaskers that can detect bitter, sweet, umami and sour stimuli, a new study finds. The research challenges conventional notions of how taste works. In the past ...

Scientists at the University of Buffalo have made a discovery that could shake up what we know about the sense of smell in humans. The breakthrough centers on a newly discovered type of taste cell ...

BOSTON - There may be yet another basic type of taste. We generally know about the five - sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami - but a team of researchers at University of Southern California ...

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 ...