Keep your childrens' baby teeth as researchers find stem cells in them could be used to treat cancer
Daily MailKeeping teeth that fall out during childhood could be a lifesaving move, according to the United States National Center for Biotechnology. Researchers have found the stem cells in a younger tooth tend to be less exposed to environmental damage than adult teeth and can help regenerate new cell growth in other parts of the body. Other uses for human deciduous pulp stem cells could be to regrow bones, regenerate the liver, treat diabetes, and reproduce eye tissue. Using milk teeth could replace the difficult process of accessing bone marrow for stem cells 'This treatment gives patients sensation back in their teeth,' Songtao Shi from the University of Pennsylvania said. Shi and his team said following the research supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the Natural Science Foundation of China and a pilot grant from Penn Dental Medicine, they planned to research how using stem cells from one child's teeth in another person's body would turn out.
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