Scientists just mapped your tongue. It may be the key to helping you lose weight - Understanding how we crave sweet treats ...

In the quiet rhythm of your heartbeat, something unexpected might be happening—something as surprising as tasting sweetness without your tongue. Scientists have discovered that your heart can ...

A team of researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on a new graphene-based sensor design ...

Our innate preference for the taste of some foods over others is rooted in how the tongue and the brain became wired during our evolutionary history.

The tongue may be the epicenter of taste sensation, but taste receptors are scattered throughout the digestive and respiratory tracts.

Bitter taste receptors could serve as endogenous sensors for bile acids, suggests study Taste receptors for bitter substances are not only found on the tongue but also on cells outside the oral ...

While taste receptors are traditionally associated with the tongue and our ability to perceive flavors, recent studies have shown that these receptors exist in other parts of the body, where they ...

This area of research offers delectable “food for thought,” highlighting the role of extraoral taste receptors and their putative involvement in food intake, metabolism, and obesity.

The sensation that we know as taste involves an intricate system of nerves that relay information from the tongue’s taste buds and the nose’s olfactory receptors directly to the brain.