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Pigs can regenerate adult teeth. What if humans could do it?

A series of steps used by researchers at the Tufts University Dental Medicine of Dental Medicine to create bioengineering teeth. They used a combination of cells collected from pig jaws (upper left line) and human teeth (lower left line). These cells were then cultured and planted in adults, where they began to form the beginning of the teeth. Illustrations: Zhang…