Researchers Create a Protein Map of Human Spit.

[Science News]

Ant writes "United States researchers have identified all 1,116 unique proteins found in human saliva glands. It was a discovery they said on Tuesday that could usher in a wave of convenient, spit-based diagnostic tests that could be done without the need for a single drop of blood. As many as 20 percent of the proteins are found in saliva are also found in blood, said Fred Hagen, a researcher at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York who worked on the study."Read more of this story (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/0257219&from=rss) at Slashdot.
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[Raven]

That title is gross. :Puking_Smiley: