Tag: blood cells

  1. Replacing teeth and white blood cells, and a wi-fi enabled pacemaker.

    30 August 2009

    I realize that some of these stories are kind of old, but in my defense I work a lot.

    
    

    Scientists at the Tokyo University of Science announced earlier this month that they had grown a replacement tooth for an adult lab mouse. While this doesn’t sound like much given that rodent teeth grow continually through the creature’s life, they accomplished this task by engineering mouse cells to grow teeth and transplanting them into the socket of an extracted tooth. The tooth grown was fully functional, and seemed to have all of the nerve connections, structural integrity, and usability …

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