Hacker NewsJun 1, 2024
Ozempic and Wegovy Might Be Supercharging Your Taste Buds
https://gizmodo.com/ozempic-wegovy-boost-taste-sensitivity-weight-loss-1851511664
#ycombinator #Anti_obesity_medication #Anorectic #Health #Medical #Pharma #Taste_bud #Obesity #Gustation #Incretin #Hospitality #Recreation #GLP_1 #Umami #Sweetness #Mojca_Jensterle_Sever #Sense #Sensory_systems #Gustatory_system #Gizmodo
Ozempic and Wegovy Might Be Supercharging Your Taste Buds

A small proof-of-concept study has found evidence that semaglutide can improve people's taste sensitivity, particularly to sweetness.

Gizmodo
Nate HimmelNov 2, 2023

Now out in Current Biology - our attempt at detecting protein homologs in the post-protein folding age.

Insect ORs and GRs are particularly difficult to work with because of rapid evolution and huge sequence divergence. By combining structure and sequence based searches, we surprisingly found homologs across the tree of life. Cryptic proteins as old as LUCA?

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.10.008

#phylogenetics #alphafold #evolution #ionchannels #olfaction #smell #gustation #taste #drosophila #asgard #LUCA

Nate HimmelFeb 24, 2023

Now live at eLife: Structural screens identify candidate human homologs of insect chemoreceptors and cryptic Drosophila gustatory receptor-like proteins

https://elifesciences.org/articles/85537

The first part of a developing project looking into the enigmatic origins of insect Gustatory and Odorant receptors!

#olfaction #smell #taste #gustation #evolution #molecularevolution #phylogenetics #LECA #trypanosoma #drosophila #AlphaFold

Structural screens identify candidate human homologs of insect chemoreceptors and cryptic Drosophila gustatory receptor-like proteins

eLife
Paule Valery Joseph Dec 5, 2022
#Taste (#gustation) and #smell (#olfaction) matter - that’s the tweet βœŠπŸ€›πŸ‘Š #chemosensation #chemosensorydisorders Learn more about how patient advocates have come together to bring awareness and support each other @[email protected]