{"id":503,"date":"2003-04-29T02:26:31","date_gmt":"2003-04-29T02:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:50","slug":"from-the-mouths-of-babes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"from the mouths of babes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The tooth fairy had better start coughing up: Baby  teeth may be worth a whole lot more than some spare change under the  pillow. They&#8217;ve been found to contain a rich supply of stem cells, the  powerful precursor cells of the body, which can evolve into any type of  cell. According to a report published online last week in the <em> Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,<\/em> researchers from the  National Institutes of Health have used the pulp inside shed baby teeth  to successfully grow cells of nerves, fat and teeth. The stem cells also  seem to grow faster and have more potential to differentiate into other  cell types than adult stem cells. Dr. Songtao Shi, the senior author of  the paper, stated in a press release: &#8220;Doctors have successfully  harvested stem cells from umbilical cord blood for years. Our finding is  similar in some ways, in that the stem cells in the tooth are likely  latent remnants of an early developmental process.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 4\/29\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tooth fairy had better start coughing up: Baby teeth may be worth a whole lot more than some spare change under the pillow. They&#8217;ve been found to contain a rich supply of stem cells, the powerful precursor cells of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=503\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}