> They offered my wife and me free samples (based on her work, not as compensation for writing this post); she accepted, and I’m still debating.
Given that it's an oral colonist it seems likely that the author has tried the free sample as well, even if they were to live in a no-kissing houshold.
The title is a lovely garden path sentence: "A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay" -- a straightforward parse leads you to the plausible assumption that the genetically modified bacterium causes tooth decay. The insertion of a "the" before "bacteria" would remove the ambiguity.
Given that it's an oral colonist it seems likely that the author has tried the free sample as well, even if they were to live in a no-kissing houshold.
The title is a lovely garden path sentence: "A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay" -- a straightforward parse leads you to the plausible assumption that the genetically modified bacterium causes tooth decay. The insertion of a "the" before "bacteria" would remove the ambiguity.