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Hindi Dental Health: Current ResearchISSN: 2470-0886
Piva F Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
PCR, Genetics, Molecular Biology
Department of Specialistic Clinical and Odontostomatological Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy.
Biography
Dr. Francesco Piva is Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Dento-Stomatological Sciences & Specialties at Polytechnic University of Marche Region (Italy). He recived his MA in Electronic Engineering in 2001 and PhD in Applied Biomolecular Sciences in 2007 from the same University. From 2001 to 2002 he worked in biomedical devices development. His research is focused on the information collected on human genome and the languages to interpret it. In particular, he works on decryption of human RNA splicing and export languages using bioinformatic tools that he projects and builds.
Publications
Editorial Open Access
The Importance of Saliva for Biomolecule Sampling
Author(s): Piva F*, Righetti A, Giulietti M and Principato G
The oral compartment is an interesting source of biomolecules that could support or even replace blood sampling. Although having the evident advantage of minimal invasiveness, saliva employment for biomarker recovery did not gain ground because it was believed that only few blood molecules could be recovered from saliva. Recent evidence shows that, not only most blood molecules can be found in saliva but also that in saliva there are molecules not present in blood. Moreover saliva contains molecules coming from distant sites such as exosomes. Here we discuss recent evidence that makes saliva promising for biomarker sampling.
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