phenomenon doesn’t occur in the brain area involved in taste perception, as previously believed — this discovery could not only help us better understand our taste system, but also why people eat the ...

The ability to sense sweet, bitter, salty, sour, and savory (also called umami) is innate, says Hojoon Lee, a postdoctoral researcher in Zuker's lab who led the study, which is published August 9 in ...

As anyone suffering through a head cold knows, food tastes wrong when the nose is clogged, an experience that leads many to conclude that the sense of taste operates normally only when the olfactory ...

The sense of taste is used by organisms to achieve the optimal nutritional requirement and avoid potentially toxic compounds. In the oral cavity, taste receptor cells are grouped together in taste ...

Scientists at MIPT and Lobachevsky National Research University have created the world's first multi-level computer model of the taste receptor, which simulates its operation: from the moment a ...

While machines have mastered both sight and sound, the sense of taste has proved harder to digitize. We've seen the creation of highly specialized artificial tongues targeting sweetness, chocolate, ...