Travis Philyaw, PhD, first author on the paper, suspected that the answer might lie in the flies’ sense of taste. “Insects are evolutionarily primed to avoid plant toxins, and cocaine is a plant toxin ...

So, he did his own research and found a medical team that ... Unfortunately, Achatz lost his sense of taste and smell after a month. “I was like, if I can't taste and I can't talk, how can ...

For instance, tongue scraping has the ability to improve our sense of taste, as research into the effects of just two weeks of tongue cleaning showed. If you’re wondering how this happens ...

but that the development could also prove useful in the research or medical sector as scientists learn more about how the brain processes taste.

Research is still ... investigated: While taste and smell are two distinct senses, they work together to give flavor to what you eat and drink. So, restoring your sense of taste may start with ...

Research suggests that individuals who believe skills like style are fixed—rather than developed—are less likely to invest effort into cultivating personal taste ... a deeper sense of reward.

If you’re among the 19% of Americans who report changes in their sense of taste as they get older, it might be some cause for alarm. New research suggests that losing your sense of taste ...

But this year they discovered that a neural circuit in the brainstem dials the levels of inflammatory molecules up and down — a revelation made in a lab with expertise not in immunology but in the ...

The altered patterns of respiration might impact health and emotion, according to the paper, though more research will be ... these people have a typical sense of taste. So, they might still ...