Scientists About to Test Medicine to Grow New Teeth

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Scientists About to Test Medicine to Grow New Teeth

Japanese scientists are set to kick off the world's first clinical trials of "tooth regrowth medicine" 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 trials. The patients will receive an antibody treatment that deactivates a protein called US…