Researchers in Beijing have generated a transcriptomic atlas comparing human fetal tooth germs from the upper and lower jaws at the critical cap stage of development. Previous studies of tooth ...

The central dogma of gene expression states that information flows in a single direction, from the inherited genetic code (DNA) to functional proteins via ribonucleic acid (RNA) intermediaries. 4, 5 ...

The interaction between genetics and tissue environment shapes how individual teeth form in different regions of the jaw.