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Taste Sensors with Gustatory Cells

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Bioinspired Smell and Taste Sensors

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With the fast advancements of cell-based biosensors in the past two decades, extensive amount of works have been performed in the development of gustatory cell-based taste sensors for chemical sensing that constitute an important class of cell-based biosensors [1–4].

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Wu, C., Du, L., Hu, L. (2015). Taste Sensors with Gustatory Cells. In: Wang, P., Liu, Q., Wu, C., Hsia, K. (eds) Bioinspired Smell and Taste Sensors. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7333-1_10

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