{"id":189182,"date":"2024-05-11T13:23:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T18:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-about-to-test-medicine-to-grow-new-teeth"},"modified":"2024-05-11T13:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T18:23:44","slug":"scientists-about-to-test-medicine-to-grow-new-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-about-to-test-medicine-to-grow-new-teeth","title":{"rendered":"Scientists About to Test Medicine to Grow New Teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-about-to-test-medicine-to-grow-new-teeth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japanese scientists are set to kick off the world\u2019s first clinical trials of \u201ctooth regrowth medicine\u201d at the Kyoto University Hospital, <a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20240503\/p2a\/00m\/0sc\/012000c\" class=\"\"><em>The Mainichi<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Japanese startup Toregem Biopharma are planning to enroll patients who were born missing some or all of their teeth from birth, a condition called congenital anodontia, for the trials.<\/p>\n<p>The patients will receive an antibody treatment that deactivates a protein called USAG-1, believed to stop \u201ctooth buds,\u201d which most people have, from developing into either baby or permanent teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese scientists are set to kick off the world\u2019s first clinical trials of \u201ctooth regrowth medicine\u201d at the Kyoto University Hospital, The Mainichi reports. Researchers from the Japanese startup Toregem Biopharma are planning to enroll patients who were born missing some or all of their teeth from birth, a condition called congenital anodontia, for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189182","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}