Interesting Facts

According to an article published in the scientific journal, Cell Regeneration, scientists have grown teeth out of human urine. (Stem cells have the potential to be grown into any type of tissue and other researchers have managed to grow teeth from gum cells, etc. but this team from China have found that human urine could be used as a source of stem cells. It gives a whole new meaning to the term "potty mouth".)

According to scientists at Louisiana's Pennington Center in the USA, a common virus could cause obesity. (They took stem cells from fatty tissue taken from liposuction patients, and exposed some to adenovirus-36. After the cells had been left for a week, those exposed to the virus had changed into human fat cells, while those left to grow without the virus had not. So, now you know. I'm not fat, I've just got an infection.)