Changes associated with anemia tongue are called glossitis, otherwise known as tongue inflammation. This article explains why ...

Each of the basic tastes, she explained, is perceived by taste buds in a unique region on the tongue: sweet at the tip, salty and sour at the sides, bitter at the back. She gave the girls Q-tips ...

But in a new study, researchers used machine learning to overcome the limitations of a promising type of chemical sensor, meaning that a robotic tongue may soon assess your milk or merlot before you ...

Taste, says one author, " is merely a more delicate kind of touch." The nerves of the whole interior of the mouth are the ones supposed by some to be endowed with this " delicate touch," while ...

A study led by Nikita Komarov and Simon Sprecher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, has discovered neurons in the fly larva mouth that allow the taste of food texture. Published in the ...