“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — Carl Jung
September 2025: The structure of taste
Bridging molecular structures and machine learning with sensory studies is exactly what Dr. Masha Niv from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is passionate to work on. Their team works on how different molecules in food and drugs activate G-protein coupled receptors to elicit distinct tastes such as bitter and sweet.