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Aug 18 2009 02:11am

http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2009/08/an_organ_replaced_fully_functional_bioengineered_tooth_debuts.html

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The individual in the photo is not displaying his newly acquired gold tooth bling, but rather something more precious: the first fully functioning 3D organ derived from stem cells, described in PNAS as "a successful fully functioning tooth replacement in an adult mouse achieved through the transplantation of bioengineered tooth germ into the alveolar bone in the lost tooth region."

Someone needs to give that research term more funding.

jer-is-da-best

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Aug 18 2009 01:35pm

Sweet,if this gets far enough we won't need donors anymore lol.

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