The humble planarian flatworm can regrow its brain. Here’s how this tiny animal will have you rethinking everything you ...

Regeneration is a fundamental biological process that restores damaged tissues and organs, and understanding its underlying mechanisms is crucial for ...

In Lila Guterman’s article “Hope Grows for Replacing Lost Limbs and Outworn Organs” (January 31), Ronald D.G. McKay is quoted as saying that for regeneration biology to contribute to medicine, “we ...

Dr Tommy Rhee, CEO of RheeGen, outlines how FDA crackdowns have revealed dangerous and unethical tissue sourcing practices.

Oct. 20—ATHENS — While current medicine can slow down the progression of many diseases, the relatively new field of regenerative biology uses stem cells and advanced therapies to treat or reverse the ...

Stem cells in most organisms typically take cues from adjacent cells. But new research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research has found that stem cells in the freshwater planarian Schmidtea ...

Planarians are a striking model for studying regeneration owing to their extraordinary capacity to reform entire body structures from small tissue fragments. This ability is mediated primarily by ...

An international collaboration study reveals how evolution and locomotion patterns, such as bipedalism, shaped bone ...

Scientists analyzing the regeneration of organs in mammals have found that a type of cell in deer antlers could be a reservoir of cellular renewal in higher vertebrates. Researchers found that when ...

A few years ago, researchers developed a novel treatment that seemed to repair tissue and spinal cord injuries. These so-called dancing molecules have now been applied to human cartilage cells, and ...

Tunicates are marine invertebrate chordates that occupy a singular phylogenetic position as the closest extant relatives to vertebrates. Their diverse life histories, which include both solitary and ...

Lighthouse Medical Center announced the expansion of its regenerative medicine clinic as part of a broader initiative to ...