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Saliva Diagnostics

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Saliva-based diagnostics have become evident that saliva becomes a popular choice because the level of its content could reflect certain disease states. Salivaomics is the information derived from studies in human saliva and these data are generated from various sets of instruments. And these research data which contain tons of information will then be further processed by bioinformatics approaches to construct the complex network in the biological system.

So, it seems saliva-based diagnostics could be one of the important approaches in disease prevention and monitoring and could play an important role in the healthcare system. During the pandemic, there is significant interest in saliva test development which accelerates the development of rapid diagnostic tests using saliva.

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