Plastic is everywhere. And many products we use in everyday life can expose people to tiny, micrometer-wide plastic particles ...

Dominy, who has studied enzymes in saliva, found the results surprising, and said no one had previously surveyed the variety of bacteria in saliva. What else is inside saliva? One component of ...

This experiment works because it shows how salivary amylase – a type of enzyme that exists in our saliva – breaks down the starch in the bread into a sweet-tasting sugar. While this experiment ...

Digestive enzymes play a crucial role in breaking down food, enhancing nutrient absorption, and supporting overall gut health ...

When you chew carbohydrate-rich foods, carbohydrase enzymes, such as amylase in your saliva, break down starch into sugar to give us the energy we need. Then protease enzymes in your stomach break ...

A study found that the popular product can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into saliva and ...

Morning saliva has anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-fungal properties that help inhibit the growth of acne-causing bacteria.

Their sensor is triggered by certain disease-associated enzymes in the chewer’s saliva. These enzymes—matrix metalloproteinases—break the sensor apart by targeting the protease-cleavable fragment of ...

But Mohanty says they weren’t released because of enzymes in saliva breaking them down. Rather, the act of chewing is abrasive enough to make pieces flake off. And after 8 minutes of chewing ...

When you chew carbohydrate-rich foods, carbohydrase enzymes, such as amylase in your saliva, break down starch into sugar to give us the energy we need. Then protease enzymes in your stomach break ...