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

Fibroblasts are a key part of wound healing. (Gopal Murti/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) While human beings have some ...

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 ...

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 ...

For those of us whose memory of high school biology hasn’t faded entirely, planarians will probably sound very familiar. They’re generally used as an example of one of the extreme ends of regenerative ...

Losing a limb or an organ is life-altering for most creatures, but not for all. Some animals have evolved regeneration skills that go far beyond healing scrapes or broken bones. These species can ...

Insights into healing and aging were discovered by National Institutes of Health researchers and their collaborators, who studied how a tiny sea creature regenerates an entire new body from only its ...

A wide variety of distantly-related animals, including flatworms, newts and zebrafish, have robust abilities to regenerate damaged or missing body parts. A new study shows little evidence of a common ...

Northwestern University scientists have developed a cell-free bioactive material comprising a complex network of molecular components that work together as a scaffold to mimic cartilage’s natural ...

When it comes to regeneration, salamanders – and particularly axolotls – garner lots of attention. The rather adorable critters can completely regrow lost appendages dozens of times, and to a lesser ...