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Nature Medicine 14, 706 - 709 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0708-706
Just spit it out
Trisha Gura1
- Trisha Gura is a writer in Boston and author of Lying in Weight: the Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women.
Abstract
The microbes that inhabit the human mouth have a lot to say about one's general health. That's part of the motivation behind a massive new push to catalog these oral bacteria. Trisha Gura finds out why researchers believe that the study of saliva deserves more than just lip service.
Floyd Dewhirst is well aware that spit has a lowly status in the minds of most people. But this fact has never stopped him from continuing the quest he began deep in the basement of the Forsyth Institute, a research center located in Boston.
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