Stem Cells: A smart use for wisdom teeth – Video

Posted: November 11, 2011 at 8:07 pm



A study appearing in the September 17, 2010 Journal of Biological Chemistry shows that wisdom teeth contain a valuable reservoir of tissue for the creation of stem cells; thus, everyone might be carrying around his or her own personal stem-cell repository should he or she ever need some. The molar-derived cells also could differentiate into many other cell types including beating cardiomyocytes (as in this YouTube video), as expected.

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