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Aug. 5, 2020 —An intriguing early symptom among some COVID-19 patients is the loss of the sense of smell and/or taste, which has led to the suspicion that the virus that causes the illness, SARS-CoV-2, could be ...
Aug. 13, 2020 —Our mouths may be home to a newly discovered set of multi-tasking taste cells that -- unlike most known taste cells, which detect individual tastes -- are capable of detecting sour, sweet, bitter and ...
July 9, 2020 —A new study might explain why humans register some tastes more quickly than others, potentially due to each flavor's molecular size. The research also provided explanation as to why humans ...
Mar. 23, 2023 —The activation of taste receptors by various food molecules triggers specific pathways, resulting in the sensation of taste. The association of chloride ion, a component of table salt, with a sweet ...
June 29, 2021 —Patients who had their wisdom teeth extracted had improved tasting abilities decades after having the surgery, according to a new ...
Nov. 12, 2020 —A new study found that the map of neural responses mediating taste perception does not involve, as previously believed, specialized groups of neurons in the brain, but rather overlapping and ...
July 27, 2021 —The fruit fly has multiple taste organs throughout its body to detect chemicals, called tastants, that signal whether a food is palatable or harmful. It is still unclear, however, how individual ...
Feb. 16, 2022 —Taste loss in people infected with COVID-19 is in fact genuine and distinguishable from smell loss. A new study examines the prevalence of taste loss in COVID-19 patients and how the way the symptom ...
Sep. 9, 2022 —New research has revealed the extent of sensory loss among people suffering from long COVID, with around 30 percent reporting a decreased sense of smell, and a similar number finding their sense of ...
Dec. 15, 2021 —What you eat influences your taste for what you might want to eat next. So claims a new study performed on fruit flies. The study offers a better understanding of neurophysiological plasticity of the ...