@tilscience: This is WILD!! I guess flossing might just be the new vaccination method?? Yes, you’re reading that right. I had to do a double take on this paper headline, but it’s legit! Harvinder Gill, PhD in Bioengineering was reading a dental research paper that gave him the ingenious idea. There are pockets between our teeth called the gingival sulcus that are fantastic at absorbing molecules. So, Gill thought, why not use this to absorb vaccines too? The natural next step was to floss a bunch of mice’s teeth to see if it would work & it did! Read more in the study here: “Floss-based vaccination targets the gingival sulcus for mucosal and systemic immunization” published in Nature But how wild is it to think that one day we could get vaccinated, not at the doctor’s, but at the dentist! #medicine #vaccine #mindblown #Science