Do you feel like you can taste the spare change in your pocket? These days, it can be concerning if you lose your sense of taste, but even more alarming when you are left with a metallic taste in your ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Does your mouth taste like you’ve been munching on old coins? There’s a medical name for that: ...

Taste-bud receptors, primarily on the tongue, sense the qualities of salty, sour, bitter, sweet, and umami (the taste of glutamate). While sweet, umami, and salty foods provide pleasurable sensations ...

A team at the University of Singapore has created an electrode device that sits on the tip of your tongue and simulates the tastes of salty, sweet, bitter and sour. Michelle Starr is CNET's science ...

A sore throat, loss of taste, and a burning tongue are telltale signs something is wrong. But the culprit might surprise you. These symptoms can be caused by candidiasis of the mouth—also known as ...

A new analysis found that mean radiation dose to the tongue mucosa did not improve predictions of taste impairment in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) compared with mean dose to the oral ...

The tongue may indeed have a taste for cheesecake, french fries and butter cookies, according to study published Tuesday. In experiments with rodents, French scientists identified a receptor on the ...

There are many possible causes for a salty taste in your mouth, ranging from relatively benign conditions, like dehydration and post-nasal drip, to potentially serious ones, like head trauma or kidney ...

Scientists in Germany have created a novel flu detection method using an edible sensor that produces taste when the influenza ...

Flu season is fast approaching in the northern hemisphere. And a taste-based influenza test could someday have you swapping nasal swabs for chewing gum. A new molecular sensor has been designed to ...