Medicine & TechnologyA new study suggests that the tongue could detect ammonium chloride as the sixth basic taste. Learn more about it in this article.
The tongue is a wonderful organ and yet notoriously hard to study because of its location. Check out how one of the most sensitive organs in the body could help blind or visually impaired people "see" the world.
Scientists have fabricated synthetic soft surfaces, mimicking the texture of the tongue through 3D printing technologies - opening a wide variety of potential applications in food, nutrition, pharmaceutics, and other oral-related studies.