For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them. Human ears and skin have famously been grown on mice. More recently, ...

Dentists could one day regrow human teeth instead of replacing them with false implants, according to scientists who have ...

Humans have these stem cells when we're younger. But after our adult teeth grow in, the stem cells die and disappear. To understand why, let's take a journey back in time. To about 320 million ...

Half of Britons are missing at least 10 teeth by the age of 75, according to official data, and one in 10 adults have ...

The new structures had even begun growing hard layers of dentin and cementum, which occurs in adult human teeth. An obvious perfectionist, Yelick admitted that she and Zhang have not yet created ...

For adults, the fluoride content is quite high for children. When they are still growing their teeth if they use toothpaste that contains high fluoride, then they are prone to dental fluorosis by ...

But if you lose an adult tooth, your options are limited ... That must have been one heck of a toothy smile—imagine regular pig teeth growing next to bioengineered human-ish ones.

Previous studies have shown that these cells can be combined in the lab to formal normal teeth, but the challenge was to find non-embryonic source of the cells that could be used in the clinic. To ...

Like something out of "Little Shop of Horrors," scientists have managed to grow human-like teeth in a lab — and implant them inside a miniature pig's mouth. As the MIT Technology Review explains, ...

The world’s first clinical trial of a drug designed to grow teeth will start in September ... Patients often rely on dentures or implants as adults. No cure is available. The research team ...