Ian RandallIt’s one of life’s little ironies: Sweet foods get sweeter when you add a little salt. Now, scientists may have provided connoisseurs of salted caramel and grapefruit with the reason this culinary trick is worth its salt.Your ability to savor food comes from the receptor cells in your tongue’s taste buds.

Sweet tastes are detected by a family of receptors called T1R, which pick up both natural sugars and artificial sweeteners. Scientists originally thought disabling the T1R family would stop any responses to sweet stimuli.

But in 2003, researchers showed that mice whose T1R genes had been genetically “knocked out” still liked the sugar glucose. The finding suggested there must be another way that mice—and possibly humans—sense.

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Odsonne Edouard fitness update as Celtic star faces downbeat AC MIlan prognosis following Covid fight

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INXS’ Andrew Farriss on new EP ‘Love Makes the World,’ 30th anniversary of ‘X’ and coronavirus

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Coaldale church added to list of Lethbridge-area COVID-19 outbreaks

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Demand for flu shot spikes in New Brunswick during coronavirus pandemic

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Coca-Cola will stop making Tab diet soda, company announces

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New Brunswick reports 5 new coronavirus cases, 2 more recoveries on Friday

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108 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, Ottawa sets record for most cases in a month

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Bill Kelly: Why is the Ford government’s approval rating dropping?

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FBI on scene at IBEW Local 98 headquarters Friday morning

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Winning lottery ticket worth $3.6 million sold at Chadds Ford Wawa

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'A fraud on the nation:' Critics blast Indian government’s promotion of traditional medicine for COVID-19

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Space probe makes first Venus fly-by on way to Mercury

BERLIN – A spacecraft bound for Mercury swung by Venus on Thursday, using Earth’s neighbor to adjust its course on the way to the solar system’s smallest and innermost planet.Launched almost two years ago, the European-Japanese probe BepiColombo took a black-and-white snapshot of Venus from a distance of 17,000 kilometers (10,560 miles), with some of its own instruments in the frame.The fly-by is the second of nine so-called planetary gravity assists that the spacecraft needs for its seven-year trip to Mercury. The first, around Earth, took place in April.The European Space Agency has described the 1.3 billion-euro ($1.5 billion) mission as one of its most challenging yet.

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London to move into Tier 2 coronavirus restrictions from midnight on Friday

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