Hierarchical communication between cells with distinct positional memories orchestrates the regeneration of missing limb structures in axolotls.

Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have found that a key ...

We usually think that losing a body part is a permanent thing. But in nature, some animals have a superpower we can only ...

However, opponents of the plans argue that many of the homes are not substandard and say residents are angry and fearful ...

Will a human ever celebrate a 150th birthday? You bet, says Stephen Austad, a biology of ageing researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Austad is so sure that life expectancy is poised ...

Biologists have long been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to regrow entire limbs. Now Harvard researchers have solved part of the mystery of how they accomplish this feat—by activating stem ...

For decades, scientists have studied the remarkable regenerative ability of planarians, triclad flatworms that can basically regrow their entire bodies if necessary. A new study shows that the secret ...

When humans lose a limb due to an injury, there are lifelong lifestyle changes that are necessary to accommodate the loss of the arm or leg. In some instances, the changes are minor, with people ...