These Fish Transformed Their Dorsal Fins Into Taste Buds From tasting to hunting to hitching a ride, some fins have evolved for a variety of uses beyond swimming. Katie Cottingham - Freelance Writer.

Larger, dome-shaped vallate papillae sit toward the back of the tongue and, like foliate papillae, can house as many as 250 taste buds each. A fourth type—filiform papillae—is the smallest and ...

A graphene sensor trained by machine learning can now taste like a human, identifying both basic and complex flavors with ...

Your tongue and 10,000 taste buds are amazing. Just take a close-up look at all they do! Skip to main content . ... Taste buds aren't just about providing pleasurable sensations.

Molecular biologists weigh in. Modern molecular biology also argues against the tongue map. Over the past 15 years, researchers have identified many of the receptor proteins found on taste cells ...

Think for a minute about the little bumps on your tongue. You probably saw a diagram of those taste bud arrangements once in a biology textbook — sweet sensors at the tip, salty on either side ...

A team of researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on a new graphene-based sensor design ...

WASHINGTON — Packing on pounds seems to dull people’s sense of taste, and puzzled researchers turned to mice to figure out why: Obesity, they found, can rob the tongue of taste buds. If Tuesd… ...

Packing on pounds seems to dull people's sense of taste, and puzzled researchers turned to mice to figure out why: Obesity, they found, can rob the tongue of taste buds. If Tuesday's findings pan ...

Some flat fishes are already known to have taste buds on their dorsal fins and along their bottom sides, says Matt Girard, a zoologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History who ...