Dental floss gets a upgrade: needle-free vaccines

Your next flu vaccine might be administered by your dentist, according to a new study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. Harvinder Gill, an engineer at North Carolina State University specializing in nanomedicine, theorized that the highly permeable tissue of the gums could serve as an effective vector for vaccines. — Read the rest
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