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College students may be at particular risk because they live in such close quarters and are more likely to exchange saliva. Nancy Anderson, director of the Longbrake Student Wellness Center at the College of Wooster in Ohio, advises students to wash their hands regularly and avoid going out if they get sick. Wooster also requires incoming students to have received both doses of MMR vaccine...
...have a chance to own a roll that has touched the mouth of one of the most influential and compelling figures in America today,” the listing reads. “I bet it even has his saliva...
...think Larry’s DNA is on the bread roll?” asked one potential bidder, according to Hay. “If I win this auction, can I use saliva DNA to clone Larry...
...unsolved crime. In a 2001 sexual-abuse case, a 14-year-old mentally handicapped boy told police he had been molested by a man who was licked by his dog during the act. Scientists tested DNA taken from the suspect's skin and found the dog's saliva exactly where the boy had said it would be. The molester pled guilty and got three years in federal prison...
Getting answers from animal samples is often easier than extracting them from humans. Many pets are fastidious groomers, and the saliva covering the fur they shed makes it a far better source of DNA than snippets of human hair. The lab has also developed reagents specific to certain animals, making it harder for a sample to be hopelessly contaminated by, say, a scientist's sneeze...