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Bacteria and other microbes in the human mouth can help researchers understand how our oral microbiomes affect our overall health. Forsyth researchers Floyd Dewhirst and Gary Borisy and their colleague Jessica Mark Welch of the Marine Biological Laboratory were featured recently in Knowable Magazine and Smithsonian explaining the significance of their work with the oral microbiome.  Read the…

The Forsyth Institute Student Scholars Summer Internship Program was featured today in the Boston Globe. This highly competitive program exposes Boston-area high school students to the world of scientific research. This summer, eight interns selected from a pool of more than 200 applicants worked side-by-side with Forsyth scientists in their labs. Three of those students—Angel Muthemba, Cheyenne Stringfellow,…

Each summer, the Forsyth Institute welcomes Boston-area high school students to work side-by-side with scientists in their labs. The Forsyth Student Scholars Summer Internship Program gives students the opportunity to perform hands-on experiments and contribute to real research projects. This year, eight interns were selected out of more than 200 highly competitive applicants. Meet this year’s student…

Kuwait has some of the highest rates of obesity and diabetes in the world, and scientists don’t know why. This question was addressed by Dr. Max Goodson, Emeritus Professor at the Forsyth Institute. Goodson is the principal investigator of a large-scale study that analyzed diet, salivary bacteria, salivary protein biomarkers, and salivary metabolites of 10-year-old…

The Boston Bruins hockey team has partnered with the Forsyth Institute to provide custom mouthguards to student athletes at Lynn Classical High School for the spring sports season. Athletes from the baseball, softball, and lacrosse teams will be invited to have an impression taken for a custom mouthguard in the school’s colors. Student athletes will…

ForsythKids builds healthy communities by improving children’s dental health where they live and learn. The ForsythKids program works with schools and community partners to make certain it is easy for children and their families to get high quality dental care, which is critically important to their overall health and well-being.

Bacteria are everywhere. They live in the soil and water, on our skin and in our bodies. Some are pathogenic, meaning they cause disease or infection. To design effective treatments against pathogens, researchers need to know which specific genes are to blame for pathogenicity. Scientists can identify pathogenic genes through genetic engineering. This involves adding…

Good oral hygiene is the focus at the Match Community Day Public Charter School in Hyde Park thanks to the ForythKids Program. Erika Tarantal reports on how thousands of kids have benefitted from the program. Dr. Kerry Maguire, director of ForsythKids, and her senior associate Mandy Sadri, talk to Karen Holmes Ward about the program’s…

Hundreds of different bacterial species are living inside your mouth. Some are highly abundant, while others are scarce. A few of these oral bacteria are known pathogens. Others are benign, or even beneficial. Scientists know the genetic makeup of about 70 percent of oral bacteria. What they don’t know is which species would live the…

The prospect of a root canal induces dread in almost anyone. More than 41,000 people undergo the notoriously painful procedure each day. But what if there was a treatment that used the body’s own cells to reverse decay and prevent the need for a root canal altogether? In a study published recently in Frontiers in Immunology,…