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New Scientist on MSNKomodo dragons have teeth capped with a layer of ironAn orange layer on the tips of Komodo dragons’ teeth may give the enamel extra strength for ripping apart their prey ...
The white areas are what the lab-grown teeth, or "toothlets", look like under the microscope© BBC Dr Angelova-Volponi and Mr Zhang at work creating tooth cells© BBC ...
Engineers from the US and China made artificial tooth enamel that's even harder than the material in people's mouths—a feat that dental researchers have been chasing for many years.
Sometime soon you could be able to regrow tooth enamel and that could mean goodbye to drilling and fillings at the dentist, writes Arosha Weerakoon.
The microscope footage, shared by Sophie Williams, 23, a final-year PhD student from Nottingham, England, shows the rapid development of cancer cells in a laboratory flask.
Scientists from King's College London manage to grow a tooth under laboratory conditions.
When she and her team compared casts from 45 Neanderthal and 30 early modern human teeth under a microscope, they found that the two groups’ dental wear patterns were pretty much identical.
What appeared to be just a dark blob under a microscope, has the potential to restore human teeth, according to their research.
A surgeon looked at 7 clitorises under a microscope and found they're packed with 10,000 nerve fibers. It could be a game-changing discovery.
So far, Rascovan's biggest breakthrough didn't come from the teeth he cut up himself, though. It came from analyzing publicly available DNA data from studies of ancient human genomes.
Compared with human teeth, Komodo dragon enamel is incredibly thin, says LeBlanc. Along the serrations, the enamel is only 20 micrometres thick – about a quarter of the thickness of a human hair.
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