Dental researchers from Tufts University took cells from the dental pulp of a human tooth and mixed them with cells from the enamel of a pig tooth and seeded them onto a “scaffold.” ...

In a paper published in late December, a team at Tufts University reported having successfully grown human-like teeth in pigs. Pamela Yelick, a professor at the Tufts School of Dental Medicine and ...

Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. If the trial is successful, the researchers hope the drug will become available for all forms of ...

Scientists were able to determine the biological sex of the Paranthropus robustus specimens by analyzing specific protein ...

New research reveals how genes inherited from Neanderthals and critical developmental markers like PITX2 influence tooth size, shedding light on human evolution and genetic diversity. Study ...

"This environment is more 'tuneable' and can be better adjusted to promote the process of tooth-making. With this, we might be one step closer to growing human teeth in a lab in near future." ...

Dental problems have tormented humans for ages, but the recent discovery and analysis of two 4,000-year-old teeth reveal how the bacteria populating ... negative impacts on the oral environment and ...

Researchers implanted a mix of human and pig tooth cells in mini pig jaws. This was not a pig used in the study. © Freepik When you lose a baby tooth, an adult one ...

While many species can regenerate their teeth, human beings only get one chance at growing a healthy set of adult pearly whites. That is, until now. Scientists from King's College London have ...

There's the fact that human teeth ... were those teeth sensitive?'" Haridy figured that modern-day fish might help her answer the question. So she looked at the tooth-like scales of the embryos ...

Scientists at King's College London say they've successfully grown a human tooth in a lab for the first time. As detailed in a paper published in the journal ACS Macro Letters, the team said it ...

The scientists combined human and pig tooth DNA in a tooth-like tissue and transferred it into the mouth of a miniature pig, and within months an organic tooth had formed that resembled one ...