UB Dental Researcher Stefan Ruhl Studies Salivary Biology in Great Apes – Video




UB Dental Researcher Stefan Ruhl Studies Salivary Biology in Great Apes
Under the leadership of Dean Michael Glick, DMD the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine is engaging faculty, staff and students in an aggressive new strategic plan aimed at defining excellence in global health. The school is creating innovations in oral health education, research, and service to improve the quality of healthcare. In the School #39;s Oral Biology Department, researcher Dr. Stefan Ruhl tries to find out how saliva manages to protect humans from harmful pathogens while at the same time allowing a beneficial microflora to colonize the oral cavity. To solve this question, he has turned for help to our closest existing evolutionary relatives, the great apes.

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