Doing away with cavities is good.
Lumina toothpaste is being shipped. We celebrate it.
TL;DR
The long battlefield in the fight against cavities has shifted recently with the shipping of Lumina toothpaste. What is behind this shift? A small engineered bacterium, developed by Lantern Bioworks, called S. mutans bacterium which aims to put an end to cavities not by eliminating sugar (who wants that?), but by cleverly re-engineering the very bacteria that cause decay to produce harmless ethanol instead of corrosive lactic acid.
It’s a millennia old problem with a modern solution.
More after the break.
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