proteins

Dental Researcher Investigating Oral Graft-Versus-Host Disease

Jacqueline Mays, DDS, MHSc, PhD, of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research...

Public Wiki Catalogs Thousands of Salivary Proteins

To improve the development of new saliva-based diagnostic tests and personalized medicine, the National...

Checkpoint Inhibition Derails Head and Neck Cancer Progression

Researchers at the UCLA School of Dentistry have discovered a key molecule that allows...

Ancient Plaque Reveals Details About Our Ancestors’ Lives

There’s a surprising amount of information stored in the hardened plaque, or calculus, between...

Ancient Plaque Reveals Exotic Diets 3,700 Years Ago

A study of ancient proteins in human plaque has revealed that oriental elements and...

Researchers Uncover the Sources of Individual Proteins in Human Saliva

Researchers at the University at Buffalo (UB), the University of California San Francisco (UCSF)...

Grant to Support Handheld Oral Cancer Detector Development

Lesions are among the main early indicators of oral cancer, but determining whether a...

Dental School to Develop COVID-19 Saliva Test

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan College of Dentistry will use more than $550,000...

Ancient Enamel Reveals Ancestors’ Role in Human Family Tree

Proteins embedded in 800,000-year-old dental enamel have revealed the position of Homo antecessor in...

Older Patients May Need Reminders About How Nutrition Impacts Oral Health

March is National Nutrition Month, which DentalPlans.com calls an excellent time for seniors to evaluate...