Scientists studying axolotls, zebrafish, and mice have uncovered a shared set of genes that may one day help humans regrow ...

Osaka, Japan – Plants have an impressive ability to regenerate damaged tissues, but how they do it is not fully understood. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered the mechanisms involved in this ...

From salamanders regrowing lost limbs to sea slugs rebuilding their bodies from a severed head, the natural world is full of ...

If you dissect a planarian (Schmidtea mediterranea)—a flatworm about half an inch long—into 279 tiny fragments, each fragment can regrow into an entire animal. New research from the lab of Alejandro ...

A new study show that whole-body regeneration involves transcriptional changes in cells from all three germ layers (muscle, epidermis, and intestine) of the body, and that tissue from areas distant ...

Scientists have pinpointed the Shox gene as a key to axolotl limb regeneration, offering new insight into potential human therapies. In Wales, a 10-year-old rescued a critically endangered axolotl ...