Senomyx
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
La Jolla, Calif.-based Senomyx will work with Tokyo-based food and culinary product firm Ajinomoto to develop "specific natural flavor ingredients" over a three-year period, under the terms of a second research and commercialization agreement announced Oct. 11. Additionally, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued Senomyx a patent for human bitter taste receptors shown to be activated by artificial sweeteners saccharin and acesulfame potassium, Senomyx says in a Sept. 26 release. The receptors will be used by the firm to screen for new flavor ingredients capable of blocking the bitter taste associated with these sweetners. Senomyx is also looking to use its bitter-blocking technology in the pharmaceutical arena (1"The Tan Sheet" Jan. 16, 2006, p. 13)...