Scientists have discovered that the same receptors responsible for detecting bitter flavors on our tongues are also present and active on human skin. Their job is to detect bitterness, not as a flavor ...

Metastatic melanoma, also known as stage IV melanoma, is a type of skin cancer that spreads to other parts of the body. It is ...

Citation: Bitter taste receptors in skin cells function as a defense mechanism against harmful substances, researcher discover (2025, February 25) retrieved 21 March 2025 from https://phys.org ...

This week (July 7), a team described its research on the olfactory responses of the skin. Hanns Hatt of Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and colleagues examined the response of epidermal cells known ...