17 Teams find probable gene for sweet sense Two labs tasted victory in a race to identify a candidate gene for controlling our proverbial sweet tooth. A candidate taste receptor gene near a sweet taste locus. Shanker, Y. G., et al .
Sweet tooth is in the genes.
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