DRUG GROWS NEW TEETH

A team of scientists, led by a Japanese pharmaceutical startup, are ready to start human trials on a new drug that has successfully grown new teeth in animal test subjects. The Japan Times reports the drug succeeded growing new teeth in mice five years ago and now clinical trials will begin in July of 2024. Dr. Katsu Takahashi, a lead researcher on the project and head of the dentistry and oral surgery department at the Kitano Hospital Medical Research Institute, says “the idea of growing new teeth is every dentist’s dream.”
* Because eventually, a lot of them will need $2500 crowns.
* So we all get new mouse teeth? For eating those little tiny ears of corn on hors d’oeuvre trays?
* Who’s the sicko dentist who went in and yanked the teeth out of all those mice?
* The entire population of the UK waits with anticipation for a second chance.
* If it doesn’t work, that’ll bite. Or should it be “that WON’T bite”?