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A simple mouth swab, a change in who is at-risk for heart disease, and a reminder that summer heat affects more than your body.
CLEVELAND — Case Western Reserve University is leading a new effort to develop a test that could tell clinicians within minutes, right at the dentist's chair, whether a suspicious spot in the mouth needs a biopsy.
The test, called the BDI-FIA, uses a simple oral swab to measure the ratio of two naturally occurring proteins that shift in the early stages of oral cancer.
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