Taste receptors on the tongue help us distinguishing between safe food and food that's spoiled or toxic. But taste receptors are now being found in other organs, too. In a study published online the week of February 6 by the doings* of the subject Academy of physics of the USA, researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical quest decree (Sanford-Burnham) discovered that beta cells in the pancreas use taste receptors to sense fructose, a type of sugar. gospel to the study, the beta cells respond to fructose by secreting insulin, a hormone that regulates the body's reflex to dietary sugar...

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