Life in the Lab
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19th January 2022
What is saliva and why is it important for diagnostics?
Aside from when we lick a stamp, get a whiff of greasy fast food, or hold our mouths open for a routine dental cleaning, we typically don’t give saliva more than a fleeting thought. In the diagnostics world, the same has been historically true: Oral sample types, like saliva, have been ignored and undervalued, reserved only for tests for oral infections or cancers.1
But over the past decade, there’s been a major sea change in salivary diagnostics and saliva has quickly risen as a sample type wi