Oral observatory

摘要

In 2010, Michael Lau received an e-mail from a recruiter seeking candidates for a position at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Would he be interested, the recruiter asked, in applying for a postdoc related to salivary diagnostics? Lau, who was finishing his biochemistry and molecular biology PhD at the University of California, Riverside, and considering his career options, was intrigued and surprised. "I had no idea that you could actually detect systemic diseases, and oral diseases, using saliva," says Lau.