That must have been one heck of a toothy smile—imagine regular pig teeth growing next to bioengineered human-ish ones. After ...

Losing a tooth is more than just a painful inconvenience. It’s the loss of a living, functional part of your body — one that ...

That’s where the idea of growing natural teeth in pigs comes in. Formations of “tooth-like structures” were observed in 50 % of the mini pigs after four months. Credit: Weibo Zhang ...

They hope their findings could... Scientists grew human-like teeth in pigs. Could it lead to living tooth replacements? Losing a tooth is tough. If we lose the small living structures that help us ...

Tooth cells are cultured in the lab to create bioengineered teeth. For her research, Yelick uses cells from pig jaws, which she obtains from slaughterhouses. Pigs grow multiple sets of teeth ...