Unlike the tongue, the skin does not perceive bitterness as a taste. However, keratinocytes—the skin's first line of defense—express bitter taste receptors that function as biological ...

Meiji University scientist has found a way to reproduce taste, just as we’ve long been able to do for sight and sound. The human tongue has separate receptors for detecting five basic tastes ...

A snake smells with its tongue. A snake uses its forked tongue to pick up scent molecules from the air. When it brings its tongue back in, the molecules contact special receptors and the snake senses ...

Researchers from Okayama University of Science discovered taste receptors (TAS2Rs) in the skin that detect and expel harmful substances. These receptors, once believed to exist only on the tongue ...