{"id":219352,"date":"2025-08-03T20:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/humanlike-teeth-have-been-grown-in-mini-pigs"},"modified":"2025-08-03T20:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:02:22","slug":"humanlike-teeth-have-been-grown-in-mini-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/humanlike-teeth-have-been-grown-in-mini-pigs","title":{"rendered":"Humanlike \u201cteeth\u201d have been grown in mini pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humanlike-teeth-have-been-grown-in-mini-pigs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lose an adult tooth, and you\u2019re left with limited options that typically involve titanium implants or plastic dentures. But scientists are working on an alternative: lab-grown human teeth that could one day replace damaged ones.<\/p>\n<p>Pamela Yelick and Weibo Zhang at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston have grown a mixture of pig and human tooth cells in pieces of pig teeth to create bioengineered structures that resemble real human teeth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The toothlike structures represent a step toward bioengineered replacements for dental implants, say researchers behind the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lose an adult tooth, and you\u2019re left with limited options that typically involve titanium implants or plastic dentures. But scientists are working on an alternative: lab-grown human teeth that could one day replace damaged ones. Pamela Yelick and Weibo Zhang at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston have grown a mixture of pig [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219352","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}