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/PRNewswire/ -- Collaborating researchers from Penn Dental Medicine and the University of North Carolina (UNC) have discovered that the bacterial species...
Collaborating researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and the Adams School of Dentistry and Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina have discovered that a bacterial species called Selenomonas sputigena can have a major role in causing tooth decay.
Researchers have developed a nanorobot system that targets fungal infections in the mouth.
Infections caused by fungi, such as Candida albicans, pose a significant global health risk due to their resistance to existing treatments, so much so that the World Health Organization has highlighted this as a priority issue.
Researchers from the School of Dental Medicine and the School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a nanorobot system that targets fungal infections in the mouth. “Current antifungal therapies lack the power and specificity required to quickly and effectively eliminate these pathogens, so this collaboration draws from our clinical knowledge and combines expertise in robotics to offer a new approach,” says Dental’s Hyun (Michel) Koo.