I thought this mousey was chewing gum , but it turns out that green gawk in its mouth is a fully - functional , bioengineered tooth , the effect of “ tooth regenerative therapy ” research at Tokyo University ( of theear - pull navigation systemfame )
https://gizmodo.com/pull-navi-system-gives-directions-and-dumbo-like-ears-5328923
Basically that piddling mouse , permit ’s call him Jerry , lose a tooth and spring up a a Modern one in its station with the help of some scientist :
To create the new tooth , the researcher [ … ] submit epithelial cubicle and mesenchymal cells ( about 50,000 each ) from a mouse conceptus and cultivated them together in a collagen - base medium to make a tiny tooth bud – a great deal of tissue paper that has the potential to develop into a tooth .
This mass of tissues was implanted in the spot where Jerry ’s sure-enough tooth used to be and after fifty days that sneak could nibble on cheese decent again . The new tooth mature to the same height as the fence in ones , is just as hard , and has all the same blood vessels and nerve .
researcher are hoping that this bioengineering process will one day make denture and false teeth obsolete , but I think that anyone watching Shark Week is secretly conceive of get a mouthful of chompers like that . [ PinkTentacle ]
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