The Scientist, March 29th, 2004
Spit's potential diagnostic value has funding agencies putting money where the mouth is | By Eugene Russo
A trip to the doctor's office generally entails a deposit of blood or urine from which some diagnoses can be produced after a laborious process. Now, groups of biologists and engineers are working to make disease diagnoses quicker and more efficient by giving credit to a less conventional humor-the Rodney Dangerfield of bodily fluids-spit.
In the past year and a half, the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) has used a set of seve...
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