{"id":1832,"date":"2013-10-23T13:50:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T12:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/23\/scientists-grow-teeth-from-urine\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T17:11:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T16:11:17","slug":"scientists-grow-teeth-from-urine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/scientists-grow-teeth-from-urine\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists grow teeth from urine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A team of scientists in China have grown teeth using stem cells from human urine.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The study showed that urine could be used as a source of stem cells that in turn could be grown into tiny tooth-like structures.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Researchers are looking for ways of growing new teeth to replace those lost with age and poor dental hygiene.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stem cells are a popular area of research and the team at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health used urine as the starting point.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong> The cells from the urine were collected,&nbsp;&nbsp; coaxed into becoming stem cells and used to implant in mice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> After three weeks, the bundle of cells &#8220;contained dental pulp, dentin, enamel space and enamel organ,&#8221; researchers said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> They added it could lead to further studies towards &#8220;the final dream of total regeneration of human teeth for clinical therapy&#8221; but the project has attracted criticism.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> Prof Chris Mason, a stem cell scientist at University College London, told the news: &#8220;It is probably one of the worst sources, there are very few cells in the first place and the efficiency of turning them into stem cells is very low.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists in China have grown teeth using stem cells from human urine&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,56],"tags":[123,485,2277,1968,2278],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creazyworld","category-news","tag-from","tag-grow","tag-scientists","tag-teeth","tag-urine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3430,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/3430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}