There's also a report in the new issue of Nature Neuroscience. It may be of usefulness as a diagnostic help for diet related disorders, says Margolskee. It may help us to understand if some people that have problems with their diets have this because they have a specific form of this gene. There is a protein coating on this gene that could play a role in making something taste sweet to us, says Dr. Margolskee. Just as beauty is in the eye of what the beholder has seen.
Sweetness lies within the sense of the sweet receptor gene.
A writers and actors strike in Hollywood would not be the end of civilization as we know it. But one thing could lead to another and it could have a far-reaching, even disastrous, economic effect. It certainly seems that way to Richard Riordon. He's the mayor of Los Angeles. A prolonged strike could plunge our city and our country into recession.