Posted on 07/30/2013 10:25:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
Scientists have grown rudimentary teeth out of the most unlikely of sources, human urine.
The results, published in Cell Regeneration Journal, showed that urine could be used as a source of stem cells that in turn could be grown into tiny tooth-like structures.
The team from China hopes the technique could be developed into a way of replacing lost teeth.
Other stem cell researchers caution that that goal faces many challenges.
Teams of researchers around the world are looking for ways of growing new teeth to replace those lost with age and poor dental hygiene.
Stem cells - the master cells which can grow into any type of tissue - are a popular area of research.
The group at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health used urine as the starting point.
Cells which are normally passed from the body, such as those from the lining of the body's waterworks, are harvested in the laboratory. These collected cells are then coaxed into becoming stem cells.
A mix of these cells and other material from a mouse was implanted into the animals.
"You just wouldn't do it in this way” Prof Chris Mason University College London
The researchers said that after three weeks the bundle of cells started to resemble a tooth: "The tooth-like structure contained dental pulp, dentin, enamel space and enamel organ."
However, the "teeth" were not as hard as natural teeth.
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Well now ain’t that a pither!
Potty mouth. And they ain’t kiddin’.
Now - it grows new teeth.
Is there anything that pee can’t do?”
It makes great garden fertilizer if you let it age a couple months first. It can also be used to clean a wound in the field if no sterile water is available.
They use that to grow bicussh!+s.
Not news, we’ve all seen yellow teeth!
Everything tastes funny.
I love that stupid movie, my sisters-in-law hate it.
I will say this, back then Fran Drescher had the body for sin. What’s funny is they touted Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer as the “stars” of the movie, and they barely did anything.
Good one. Uro-Dent. LOL
“Just wait till they start using the brown stuff.......”
They already do.
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I went to the dentist with a cavity, and the doc said urine trouble...
Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, he was an English guy, who came to fight the Turkish...
Some pretty sweet rides in that flick too, Danza’s was awesome. The Pie mobile I could pass on.
I remember that!
She had a poop transplant!............
“Vooooooooooooo-la-re.....”
One cup of pee and 1/3 cup of nitric acid gives you kaboom.
Gives a new meaning to “My back teeth are floating”.
Need a vacation?
I think many of us do.
:-)
>> Need a vacation?
LOL, you noticed. Yeah, or some other form of mental adjustment... frontal lobotomy, bottle infrontame, whatever...
Peeth ?
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