For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

Some seemingly innocent animals hide deadly traits behind their cute appearances. From the venomous bite of the Slow Loris to ...

In the Tufts study, the bioengineered teeth developed these ligament-like connections, a promising sign that they could one ...

R esearchers have developed a way to grow human-sized tooth-like tissues in the mouths of pigs – this may be a lot to chew on ...

Only vertebrate animals have real teeth, though some invertebrates have ... can be about 7.7 feet long. Like the baby teeth of humans, elephants start off with miniature tusks that they usually lose ...

Heavy metal pollution is usually associated with modern, large-scale industrialisation. However, humans have processed metals ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Dentists could one day regrow human teeth instead of replacing them with ... tissue when regenerated in a lab and implanted into the animals. Dr Pam Yelick, from Tufts University in Boston ...

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, ...

Human teeth are the latest body part to be replicated in laboratories, with researchers hoping it could mean the end of ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?