A small band of scientists is fighting back. Armed with a deep knowledge of saliva gleaned over decades, this cadre--which jocularly refers to itself as the “salivation army”--is working to create ...

Scientists have worked hard to figure out how our salivary glands strut their stuff--both because it’s interesting and because knowledge could point the way to therapies. Structurally, the glands are ...

When a deer tick bites a human or other mammalian host, it takes more than 24 hours before the Lyme disease bacterium travels from the tick’s gut to the tick’s salivary glands and then into the host.

Rock band Saliva doesn't need to be rescued. The single Hero from the Spider-Man soundtrack has kept its vocalist Josey Scott in the spotlight alongside Nickelback's Chad Kroeger. Both artists won MTV ...

A common substance produced by fungi and other organisms has been found in the saliva of caterpillars and helps to suppress the toxins that plants produce when chewed on by insects, according to a ...