Nutrition scientists have been working to understand the relationship between type 2 diabetes and genes that express a salivary enzyme that breaks down starch, but many conflicting studies have led to ...

A new study reveals how the duplication of the salivary amylase gene may not only have helped shape human adaptation to starchy foods, but may have occurred as far back as more than 800,000 years ago, ...

Creamy. Gritty. Crunchy. Slimy. Oral texture perception is a major factor contributing to each person's food preferences. Now, a new study from the Monell Center reports that individuals' perception ...

Among other primates, New World monkeys do not produce salivary amylase and tend to consume little starch, but cercopithecines (a subfamily of Old World monkeys including macaques and mangabeys) have ...

Penn State researchers have shown that a simple saliva test may offer a new way to probe the physical consequences of caffeine coupled with stress. Penn State researchers have shown that a simple ...