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A study out of Japan showed how targeting genes can regrow teeth in animals. Now, the team has turned to a human clinical trial.

Japan: Humans Have a “Latent” Third Set of Teeth – New Medicine May Help Them Grow By 2030! (17.2.2026)

Teeth are a curious evolutionary life-over from when the average life-expectancy of a human-being was around “20-years-old” or perhaps a little older (early humans used to breed in there early teens due to a very narrow fertility window). However, as human intelligence grew, and human labour made life less difficult – the life-expectancy slowly creeped-up – but teeth development appears to have lagged behind. Far behind – in fact. We can live to 80 – but our teeth give-up the ghost at about 20 – or at least they would without modern dentistry and regular cleaning. Remember – you can die from an infected tooth – so look after yourselves!

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With adjustments in the study program, due to the effects in the sphere of speech, the young woman finished the twelfth grade!

Cuba: Yésika is a Daughter of this Hospital! (13.2.2026)

Someone once said that when you are born a nurse there is an incurable need to take care of others, this happens with Delenis González Paneca.

“From the first time I attended her, I had a special connection, she knows almost my entire life and I know hers. You just have to spend some time interpreting the language of her eyes, her moans, her facial expressions, and you understand her perfectly. She shows you that communication goes beyond words.”

Like other children and young people from Sancti Spiritus, Yésika Mora benefits from the Cuban hospital classroom programme, created to provide educational care to paediatric patients hospitalized in cancer hospitals, injured or with conditions that require prolonged hospitalization.

With adjustments in the study programme, due to the effects in the sphere of speech, the young woman finished the twelfth grade, and in the words of Osmedy Fumero Rodríguez, professor of Spanish and Literature, “she has had the privilege of bringing teachings and lessons to a sui generis, exclusive Yésika, who lives and loves with an incomparable dedication and who earns and will win the admiration of those who know her here and in all other areas”.

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