Dear Doctors: I heard there will be a saliva test to see who has a high risk of getting prostate cancer. I don’t see how saliva would have anything to do with your prostate gland. How does the test ...

SalivaDirect in New Haven, Connecticut, was a finalist in The Spinoff Prize 2024. The company was spun off from Yale University in 2022. As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in 2020, Anne Wyllie, a ...

More Alaska employers may use saliva for drug and alcohol testing, thanks to a new bill that passed the Alaska Legislature on the final day of the regular session. Awaiting Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s ...

Astute Analytica released an extensive market assessment report titled “Global Saliva collection and diagnostics market: Trends, Industry Competition Analysis, Revenue, and Forecast to 2033.” This ...

Mammograms are a lifesaving misery for middle-aged women, but a new tool could make getting a breast cancer screening as easy as spitting. Literally. A new hand-held biosensor can detect breast cancer ...

More and more biomarkers that can help in the early diagnosis of diseases like cancer are being discovered every year, but often the effective application relies on having diagnostic methods that are ...

A small, inexpensive sensor may be able to help people with heart failure monitor their condition without visiting a hospital. Trey Pittman, a graduate student in Chuck Henry’s lab at Colorado State ...

In recent weeks, a surprising trend has emerged on TikTok: using saliva as a treatment for acne. While many enjoy exploring new beauty hacks on social media, some ideas are downright odd. Acne is one ...

Developing antiviral therapeutics and vaccines requires close study of the viruses that cause disease. But how can these small germs be isolated from complex biological samples like saliva?