In the article they talk about the tooth evolution in the
future for rodents and how their molars can keep growing constantly in the
future. Rodents in the present have tall teeth and there are other types of
rodents that grow nonstop molar teeth, yet in the past all species of rodents
had short teeth and their molars were short and thick. The associate professor
Ophir Klein from the university of California San Francisco school of Dentistry
explains how he will explore the evolutions of the teeth from the rodents by
using lab mice with short moral teeth that had being thickened with genetic system
into taller teeth. Dr. Klein with the help of his colleagues will further
research about the evolution of dental stem cells with the help of fossil records
from an amount of a thousand of extinguish rodents. They have discovered from
this research that the majority of species used for this experiment have the
ability to acquire dental stem cells, this finding is a big step to finally
acquire the understanding on how to develop constantly growing teeth. I the
article they also talk about how the researchers used a computer simulator to
prove how the rodents that have this stem cells will eventually surpass other
species of rodents which do not possess the ever-growing trait.
I am a student pursing dentistry as a profession and found this article highly interesting as it shows how dental students not only learn about human teeth but conduct research on teeth in many different organisms as well.
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