Braces, rubber bands, even jaw surgery—millions endure them in pursuit of a straighter smile. But were misaligned smiles ...

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds of millions of years ago ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Discovered in Israel, the skull of a 3-year-old child shows characteristics of both humans and Neanderthals. This finding ...

Science Human-like teeth successfully grown in a pig’s mouth Researchers believe lab-grown teeth could one day serve as an alternative to synthetic dental implants. Mack DeGeurin Feb 6, 2025 2: ...

Now that it’s possible to create teeth from bioengineered mouse stem cells, researchers are moving on to investigating the best methods to get future human versions into mouths.

The original version of this article stated human teeth were being grown in a lab. The Independent is happy to correct this and state lab-grown teeth are not fully-formed human teeth.

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.

A new study published in 'Nature' has determined that human teeth evolved from the same "genetic toolkit" as an extinct species which lived about 465 million years ago.

Health These Mini-Pigs Just Grew Human-Like Teeth—Here’s Why It Matters Biological tooth substitutes could provide better alternatives to dentures and titanium implants.

In their latest research, Yelick and Zhang used cells from donated human teeth. And to create a more “natural” scaffold, the team stripped away the cells from the teeth of mini pigs.

As if US waterways weren't teeming with enough invasive fish of late, a Texas angler caught a South American piranha relative with "human teeth" at a local lake on Sunday. The fish, dubbed a pacu ...