The University of Queensland Jun 12 2025 People who carry a bitter 'supertaster gene' have been linked to various health conditions including bipolar disorder and poor kidney function, University of Queensland researchers have found. Using large-scale genome studies and the UK Biobank database, researchers examined the impact of the TAS2R38 gene on food preference and health risks. Dr. Daniel Hwang from UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience said 70 per cent of the population carried at least