{"id":126151,"date":"2021-08-12T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/this-new-discovery-could-allow-dentists-to-regenerate-the-roots-of-teeth"},"modified":"2021-08-12T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T21:24:09","slug":"this-new-discovery-could-allow-dentists-to-regenerate-the-roots-of-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/this-new-discovery-could-allow-dentists-to-regenerate-the-roots-of-teeth","title":{"rendered":"This new discovery could allow dentists to regenerate the roots of teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-discovery-could-allow-dentists-to-regenerate-the-roots-of-teeth3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>To figure out how the body changes over time, researchers are increasingly looking to understand epigenetics, the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic code itself. This scientific endeavor extends to teeth as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dent-web10.usc.edu\/ccmb\/faculty_detail.asp?RS=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yang Chai<\/a>, associate dean of research at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, reported in a <a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/articles\/46426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent article<\/a> how he and colleagues discovered that epigenetic regulation can control tooth root patterning and development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an aspect that doesn\u2019t involve change in the DNA sequence, but it\u2019s basically through the control where you make the genes available or unavailable for transcription, which can determine the pattern,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 To figure out how the body changes over time, researchers are increasingly looking to understand epigenetics, the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic code itself. This scientific endeavor extends to teeth as well. Yang Chai, associate dean of research at the Herman [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}