Iran announced that it plans to establish a tooth stem cell bank

Iran announced on Tuesday that it plans to establish a tooth stem cell bank .

Thank you Iran !


" ... "We want to set up a pulp cavity stem cell bank with the help of the presidential office's department for technology to be used for producing teeth and materials similar to it," the dean of Shahid Beheshti University's Dentistry Faculty said in Tehran on Tuesday.

He said once the stem cell bank is established, those people who pull their teeth can save and use their cells for producing and planting new teeth.

Professor Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh, the head of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center who won the world's top researcher award in Thalassemia and cancer treatment in 2012 announced in August that Iran ranks second in transplanting stem cells.

"Iran ranks the second in the world in treating thalassemia and transplanting stem cells," professor Ghavamzadeh told FNA at the time... " .


[link to english.farsnews.com]




Now only if Iranians could get rid of religion , and they could be a shining example of self-sustaining nation inspite agressors all around and embargos !