For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their ...

Archaeologists have learned about the lives of the world’s earliest farmers, how they traveled, and socialized in Neolithic ...

Dental researchers from Tufts University took cells from the dental pulp of a human tooth and mixed them with cells from the enamel of a pig tooth and seeded them onto a “scaffold.” It was then grown ...

Researchers found that the USAG-1 protein could limit the growth of teeth in mice, so ensuring that the protein didn’t form ...

Researchers report that they have identified genetic variants that determine the shape of human teeth, including a gene inherited from Neanderthals. The scientists published their paper “PITX2 ...

Future research will expand to larger primate samples, investigate diet-wear links in the wild, and apply advanced imaging to see how lesions form. The aim is to refine how we interpret the past while ...

Researchers from the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine have penned a new study published in the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine that details the process of growing a mix of human ...

A new way of looking at tooth enamel could give scientists a path to deeper understanding of the health of human populations, from the ancient to the modern. The method examines two immune proteins ...

First highlighted as part of a study in 2021, a tooth-regrowing drug is set to finally enter human testing this year. We covered plans for the drug to come to clinical trials last year, and now, it ...