Penn Dental Research Greenhouse Developing Chewing Gum To Trap COVID-19 and Reduce Its Spread

Dr. Henry Daniell, Vice-Chair and W.D. Miller Professor of the Department of Basic & Translational Sciences, and researchers at Penn's School of Dental Medicine, have been developing and testing a chewing gum that works to trap COVID-19 and reduce its spread in the Penn Dental Research Greenhouse at Pennovation Works. Read more about this gum that offers an opportunity to neutralize the virus in the saliva, giving us a simple way to possibly cut down on a source of disease transmission in the article featured in Penn Today.

Photo of Dr. Henry Daniell, Vice-Chair and W.D. Miller Professor of the Department of Basic & Translational Sciences