Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. If the trial is successful, the ...

How close are we to seeing the tooth regeneration breakthrough in everyday dental care? What if your body could just grow a ...

Researchers found that the USAG-1 protein could limit the growth of teeth in mice, so ensuring that the protein didn’t form could potentially invite teeth to grow. The team developed a medication to ...

The ability to grow replacement teeth could one day be a reality. With the discovery of adult stem cells in teeth, say scientists, there is every reason to believe tooth regeneration is possible.

Like something out of "Repo! The Genetic Opera," scientists have managed to grow human-like teeth in a lab — and implant them inside a miniature pig's mouth, in a harbinger of weird new ...

Just as your baby begins to sleep for longer and show signs of calming down, teeth start appearing. For all the benefits of evolution, the emergence of first teeth is still painful and inefficient ...

Pigs have multiple sets of teeth, so there are cells from underdeveloped teeth that have not broken through the gums. After collecting the cells, Yelick and Zhang grow them in a lab until there are a ...

The world’s first clinical trial of a drug designed to grow teeth will start in September at Kyoto University Hospital, researchers said. A team at the Medical Research Institute Kitano Hospital ...