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Mar. 11, 2011
Getting a Sense of How We Taste Sweetness
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| What makes our bodies sense sugar, fruit, or aspartame as 'sweet?' Taste scientist Robert Magolskee discusses research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences into newly-discovered pathways for detecting sweet flavors. |
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Robert Margolskee
Molecular neurobiologist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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