Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells From Urine Used To Create Human Tooth

Friday, August 2, 2013 - 10:40 in Health & Medicine

Researchers writing in Cell Regeneration report that they used induced pluripotent stem cells from urine to create a human tooth structure.The integration-free human urine induced pluripotent stem cells were differentiated to epithelial sheets ( from the Greek meaning 'upon breast', since it was first considered the skin on the breast), one of the four types of tissue (others are nervous, muscle and collective tissue) and after 3 weeks they were able to get tooth-like structures using 8 different lines with a success rate of up to 30%.  read more

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