Finding the right taste to send mosquitoes packing could save hundreds of thousands of lives. (Photo by Егор Камелев on Unsplash) Mosquitoes are the most ...

USD professor Dan Moriarty, PhD, is featured in the widely read "Scientific American." Professor Moriarty worked with well-known professor Lowell Nicolaus and discovered new findings in studying taste ...

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On a Saturday morning in October, Park Jihyun woke up at 5:30 a.m. to go raving in Seoul. And much about her prep routine was counterintuitive. Instead of shimmying into a miniskirt, the 29-year-old ...

Ever bitten into a hot pie, yelped "Hothothot!" then had your taste buds go on strike for the next week? Taste buds are a sensitive bunch. Taste buds are clusters of tiny sensory cells. They detect ...

Your last meal is usually to blame if there’s a bad taste lingering in your mouth — but it could also be a sign you’re sick. So if something’s sour — or stale or rotten or just otherwise gross — read ...

Pravin Anand and Ashutosh Upadhyaya of Anand and Anand examine whether taste can function as a trademark in India, with insights drawn from international practice and examples of graphical ...

This valuable study provides solid evidence for deficits in aversive taste learning and taste coding in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorders. Specifically, the authors found that Shank3 knockout ...

Could “fatty” or “starchy” one day become accepted as the sixth basic taste alongside the likes of sweet and salty? In recent years, scientists have proposed a few contenders for a sixth taste that ...

1 Department of Animal and Food Science, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI, United States 2 Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ...