Plastic trays line a shelf in the lab in the back room of John Mateskon’s office, each one holding a white plaster model of a person’s teeth. The formation of those models is one of the first steps in ...

Each cusp of our teeth is regulated by genes which carefully control the development. A similar genetic puzzle also regulates the differentiation of our other organs and of all living organisms. A ...

Each cusp of our teeth is regulated by genes which carefully control the development. A similar genetic puzzle also regulates the differentiation of our other organs and of all living organisms.

A team of researchers at the Institute of Biotechnology of the University of Helsinki has developed a computer model reproducing population-level variation in complex structures such as teeth and ...