In Brief: High expectations for expectorations
In Brief
High expectations for expectorations
Increasingly, new technologies are revealing important secrets in small amounts of body fluid such as blood or spinal fluid. But it takes needles, and some pain, to get that fluid.
Saliva, say some researchers, could be the raw material for easy, completely noninvasive testing for everything from viral infections to cancer.
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