Pigs are the unlikely model for this latest research into regenerating human teeth. Image source: agnormark/Adobe. In a recent study, Yelick and her team successfully grew human-like teeth in pigs.

The world's first human trial of a drug that can regenerate teeth will begin in a few months, less than a year on from news of its success in animals. This paves the way for the medicine to be ...

It also hasn’t been demonstrated on humans just yet, and while the dentin that scientists grew on the animal models is extremely similar to human teeth, it isn’t exactly the same.

The pig’s mouth revealed its ordinary sharp, tusk-like canines saddled up beside smaller, slightly more human-looking teeth nubs. In theory, a similar process could play out in humans.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Tufts University researchers took material from human and pig teeth and were able to grow a tooth-like structure. They hope their findings could lead to growing living tooth replacements for people.

Two-million-year-old teeth transform theory of prehistoric human evolution. Changes in the appearance of ancient teeth could act as a new evolutionary marker, writes Ian Towle.