The traditional taste map of the tongue that is taught in school is a myth. The idea that tastes like salt and sweet are ...

Our attraction to sugar has grown to an unhealthy level. The average person in the United States now consumes more than 100 ...

Could your tongue be the key to helping you lose weight? With the aid of new research, scientists say it may be. For the ...

The tongue-- sorry, the tongue ... Most people think those are our taste buds, but they're actually the papillae, which help grip your food. In the tips of those papillae are where our 10,000 ...

Cryo-EM map of the human sweet taste receptor (blue and green) changing shape as it binds a molecule that tastes sweet (red and green).

Better understanding this sweet taste receptor could help aid the ... Researchers at Columbia University just made a 3D map of the tongue. Could their findings help people curb their sweet tooth?

The sweet receptors on our tongue can detect a large number ... innovative approaches and about three years to map the human sweet taste receptor's structure, in large part because it proved ...