<story><title>Scientists Likely Found Way to Grow New Teeth for Patients</title><url>https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/24252/20191111/scientists-likely-found-way-to-grow-new-teeth-for-patients.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dsukhin</author><text>This was a very exciting title but a very dodgy article. It references two independent areas of active research but concludes one doesn&amp;#x27;t work in practice yet and the other (which is buried in this report [0] from Columbia from 2013) works only in rats with stem cells and growth factors. So surely, either the title is misleading about this being viable for humans yet, or there is more progress on the subject beyond what is here and there is a better and more recent source available. Either way, an exciting topic I&amp;#x27;ve also been wondering about for a long time.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techventures.columbia.edu&amp;#x2F;news-and-events&amp;#x2F;latest-news&amp;#x2F;recruiting-body-help-regrow-new-joints&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techventures.columbia.edu&amp;#x2F;news-and-events&amp;#x2F;latest-new...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Scientists Likely Found Way to Grow New Teeth for Patients</title><url>https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/24252/20191111/scientists-likely-found-way-to-grow-new-teeth-for-patients.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>naikrovek</author><text>Pfft that&amp;#x27;s nothing.&lt;p&gt;When I had testicular cancer, they found an entire molar in that tumor.&lt;p&gt;Apparently I had a type of cancer that just spontaneously grows parts of you inside it.  I am ashamed to say that I forgot the name of this type of cancer.</text></comment>